gphoto2 - cannot claim usb device

[Robert F. Stockdale IV]

Are you running udev? My son helped me with this on a Gentoo box with my 
mp3 player. By installing udev and setting some configurations it 
recognized and automounted it every time it got plugged in.
Bob

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!!
> 
>