[Digikam-users] Digikam 0.9.3 problems continue - getting desperate now

[Arnd Baecker]

Hi Mark,

On Mon, 19 May 2008, Mark Ovens wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Some months ago I posted about 0.9.3 on FreeBSD 6.3 not being able to
> find my Canon EOS400D camera. To recap, digikam had been working fine
> under FreeBSD from 0.8.x (can't remember the exact version) to 0.9.2.
> gphoto worked fine from the command line.
>
> Despite posting here and on FreeBSD forums and spending many hours
> trying to get it working, including installing FreeBSD 7.0, and
> installing FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0 on another PC (to eliminate hardware
> issues) I never solved the problem and decided to wait until 0.9.4 to
> see if the problems went away (I couldn't get svn to build under FreeBSD).
>
> I have now installed Linux - Kubuntu 0.8.4 - on my main PC (dual booting
> with FreeBSD) and guess what? Digikam 0.9.3 doesn't work properly under
> that either!!! It _will_ connect to the camera, but it is a bit hit and
> miss taking several attempts. Most of the time I get the message "Unable
> to connect to camera [...] Retry Abort.
>
> As under FreeBSD, gphoto works fine. Kubuntu also detects the camera
> being attached every time - the pop-up asking what I want to do.
>
> This is becoming a real PITA. I decided to use digikam for managing my
> digital photos (back at 0.8.x) as it is the best *nix application I've
> found by far. I now have something like 12GB of photos, catalogued,
> commented, and sorted so switching to another package will be a major
> task (if I can find another app I like as much as digikam).
>
> So, can anyone offer any help in getting this problem resolved?
>
> I am not committed to Kubuntu (in fact there are some aspects of it -
> mainly the package manager - that I don't like) so would be prepared to
> try a different Linux distro.
>
> Any help and/or advice would be greatly appreciated.

Sorry to hear about your problems to which I also don't have any
good idea. The only thing coming to my mind is
an alternative approach: buy yourself a card-reader
(which is not that expensive), mount that as usb-drive
and copy over the files to the corresponding directory
below your digikam tree.

Of course, this is no solution to the original problem, but
just a work-around ...

Maybe someone else has a better idea how to debug the
real problem.

Best, Arnd