is there any hope for a solution to my problem?

[Gilles Caulier]

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.

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.
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