gphoto2 - cannot claim usb device

Frank Kumro fkumro at gmail.com
Sun Oct 9 20:52:08 EDT 2005


Bus 003 Device 007: ID 04a9:3058 Canon, Inc. PowerShot A40
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 046d:c00e Logitech, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

On 10/9/05, Cyber Source <peter at thecybersource.com> wrote:
> You should see more than that. What does lsusb show?
>
> Frank Kumro wrote:
>
> >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!!
> >
> >
> >
>


--
Frank
Shenanigans!!




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