[Digikam-users] DigiKam fails to connect with my camera

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, rivenought wrote:

> OK, a few weeks ago was the last time I used DigiKam. I have a Kodak
> EasyShare C533 which is detected and listed in the DigiKam program. I
> know the camera works because it has worked numerous times previously. I
> also plugged it into a Windows XP machine today, and it worked fine.
>
> Now, the camera is detected, and the USB Imaging Device icon pops up on
> the desktop as usual. The error message I then get is: "Failed to
> connect to the camera. Please make sure it is connected properly and
> turned on. Would you like to try again?" Something is just not right here...
>
> I have the current version of DigiKam and pretty much everything else on
> here is updated to the current versions, too.  I have libgphoto2,
> libgphoto2-devel, digikam, digikamimageplugins,
> digicamimageplugins-superimpose - all of these are updated against the
> openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 repositories.
>
>  Do you guys think it is possible that an update over the past few weeks
> may have broken something somewhere? If so, what are my options to get
> this issue fixed really easily? Anyone else have this same issue or have
> any suggestions?
>
> My system: openSUSE 10.3 (64-bit) / KDE 3.5.8 running on an MSI K9VGM-V
> (integrated VIA Chrome9 K8M890 graphics) with an AMD AM2 Sempron64 3000+
> CPU and 2 GB of Kingston KVR667D2N5 RAM.
>
> This is not an absolute emergency, but I sure would like DigiKam to work
> like it did before.  I would appreciate any help you guys can give.

There have been a couple of issues with Suse 10.3, see
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152417
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152382
which might be related.
Could you try the steps given in bug 152382 under comment #2
and report the ouput here?

Best, Arnd