gphoto2 - cannot claim usb device

Frank Kumro fkumro at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 18:54:39 EDT 2005


The only thing that dmesg produced was

usb 3-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 5

On 10/9/05, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> I would start like this, before doing anything else, plug the camera in,
> turn it on and have a look at dmesg and your /var/log/messages, see if
> it's got a problem on that level first.
>
> Frank Kumro wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >  I am running slackware 10.2 with the 2.6.13 kernel and gphoto2
> >(2.1.6) libgphoto2 (2.1.6) libgphoto2_port (0.5.1). I have used this
> >camera in fedora core (3,4) and could get my photos out of the camera
> >so I know it works. However now in slackware when I run the command to
> >get my pictures i get this error
> >
> >bash-3.00$ gphoto2 --auto-detect --get-all-files
> >Model                          Port
> >----------------------------------------------------------
> >Canon PowerShot A40            usb:
> >Canon PowerShot A40            usb:003,004
> >
> >*** Error ***
> >An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB
> >device'): Could not claim interface 0 (Operation not permitted). Make
> >sure no other program or kernel module (such as sdc2xx, stv680,
> >spca50x) is using the device and you have read/write access to the
> >device.
> >*** Error (-53: 'Could not claim the USB device') ***
> >
> >The only other program running is gaim and gkrellm. I do not have it
> >set up to automount anything. Where should I start when trying to
> >figure out whats wrong? Any help would be great!
> >
> >--
> >Frank
> >Shenanigans!!
> >
> >
> >
>


--
Frank
Shenanigans!!




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