[Digikam-users] unable to transfer fotos from camera :-/

[Duncan Hill]

Pedro Venda wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> I'm just asking for a little help debugging a very annoying problem I'm having 
> now...
> Digikam refuses to transfer photos from my camera. While everything just 
> worked very well, after some serious system updates (gentoo, you know...) now 
> it just insists that it was unable to connect to the camera.
> 
> It behaves exactly as if no camera was connected. I've tried recompiling and 
> nothing changed. I've also tried running digikam as root and it works!

If it works as root, but not as a user, it's liable to be permission 
issues in the USB hotplugging system.