[xubuntu-users] USB camera being intercepted?

[Petter Adsen]

On Fri, 27 Nov 2015 20:19:37 +0000
Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril.ie> wrote:

> On 27/11/15 08:08, Petter Adsen wrote:
> 
> > Have you tried Shotwell? It might work better within the gvfs
> > framework.  
> 
> Apart from wanting to take over management of all my images (yuck) it
> did at least give a very slightly more informative error message when
> I plugged in the camera:
> 
> > Unable to fetch preview from the camera:
> > Could not claim the USB device (-53)  
> 
> Still not a whole lot of good, as it doesn't say what was preventing
> it from claiming the device.

LMGTFY:

http://gphoto.org/doc/manual/FAQ.html#FAQ-could-not-claim-USB

See if that helps.

Petter

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