Cannot auto-mount digital camera

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Sat Apr 12 16:56:32 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 22:02 +0900, Lachlan Michael wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 20:16 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> 
> > The camera may be getting unique handling.  Gvfs is built with gphoto2
> > support by default.  When that is enabled, certain cameras will be
> > available to gphoto, but perhaps not mountable.  Try rebuilding gvfs
> > without gphoto support, and see if that helps.
> 
> It didn't help ... the same result. (I also rebuilt all ports depending
> of gvfs) 
> 
> In the halfaq it states
> 
> > Understand that having hal alone does not mean media will get 
> > automatically mounted. Hal simply serves as a broker for requests to 
> > mount certain devices. Some other software needs to make this
> > request.  As of GNOME 2.22, this is Nautilus. 
> 
> Since there is no problem with manual mounting or FreeBSD "seeing" the
> devices, I guess the problem is with Nautilus. 
> 
> Is there some other debug output I can look at see what is going wrong?
> (Nautilus options or something?) Could this be a symptom of
> gnome-volume-manager trying to mount the camera instead of nautilus?
> 
> I also collected all the information again in case there is some
> difference in the output. Please see
> 
> http://lachlan.lkla.org/tmp/Camera_2.22_Try2/

The only SCSI volume I see here is a da0 fixed storage device.  The
camera is no longer creating a volume device.  But it is still labeled
as a camera.  Try
moving /usr/local/share/hal/fdi/information/10-camera-ptp.fdi out of the
way, then try re-inserting the camera.

Joe

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