is there any hope for a solution to my problem?

[gene heskett]

On 7/26/23 09:26, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The warnings printed by the AppImage at startup are nothing to do with
> your problem. It's just Qt warnings for other stuff.
> 
> I suspect that your desktop runs in the background a program to handle
> the camera connection and lock the access to digiKam. As I know Canon
> cameras are managed with a Gphoto2 driver.
> 
> Use a memory card reader instead of your camera, and use digiKam to
> open the memory using the USB Mass Storage device.
> 
This might work, but getting the card out is a major PITA, the battery 
must be removed first before there is even room to access the edge of 
the card to unlock it.  Its enough of a pita just getting the battery 
out to charge it,  The locking latch for that looks very very fragile. 
Getting it out out of the way to re-insert the battery after charging it 
take at least 3 hands and a suture clamp.  Thats one more than I have.
> Best
> 
> Gilles Caulier
> 
> Le mer. 26 juil. 2023 à 15:19, gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> a écrit :
>>
>> Greetings all;
>> digiKam is july 24th edition of 8,2.0
>> I can run it, and see any pix on my drive.
>> I can turn on my usb plugged in camera, a Canon SX420 IS, open the
>> import window, select the camera, an see every pix I've ever taken that
>> on the sd card in it. I can select by hand, a pix to import, click on
>> download, select the folder I want to put the pix in, click on do it,
>> get the attached advisory popup.
>>
>> There are NO errors output to the screen diiKam was launched from that
>> you haven't seen before and all that is reported, is shown before the
>> import attempt, at launch time IOW.
>> copy/paste:
>> gene at coyote:~$ digiKam
>> -- digiKam Linux AppImage Bundle
>> -- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam
>> application.
>> -- Notes: to integrate this bundle to your desktop, use AppImageLauncher.
>> --        to enable all debug messages on the console, use 'export
>> QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"'.
>> --        to extract the bundle contents locally, use option
>> '--appimage-extract' on the command line.
>> -- Detected host Linux -64-
>> -- AppImage mounted directory: /tmp/.mount_digiKa0aUKbQ
>> Check library libudev.so.0
>> Check library libxcb-dri3.so.0
>> Check library libcrypto.so.1.1
>> Check library libssl.so.1.1
>> Check library libnss3.so
>> Check library libnssutil3.so
>> Check library libsmime3.so
>> Check library libgmodule-2.0.so.0
>> -- Preloading shared libs:
>> :/tmp/.mount_digiKa0aUKbQ/usr/lib/libavif.so.13:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
>> [0726/090254.088534:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
>> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
>> [0726/090254.205907:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
>> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
>> [0726/090254.205953:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
>> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
>> [0726/090256.567552:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
>> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
>> unknown: Unhandled container to remove :  Digikam::DigikamApp
>>
>> What more can I get you?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>> --
>> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>>    soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
>> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
>> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
>>    - Louis D. Brandeis
>> Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>
> .

Cheers, Gene Heskett.
-- 
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
  soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
  - Louis D. Brandeis
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/>