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 may be a red herring. Shotwell has no such problem w/o gphoto2, but 
it buries the import in a Pictures/year/month/date/subdir. And I do mean 
buried. At my age, I often forget what if anything I had for breakfast 
and the current crop of clocks does NOT report the date, kde thinks the 
tz city is far more important than todays date. What were they thinking?
gphoto2 has been removed since the first time it was mentioned. But 
removing libgphoto-2.6 will tear down the system with its dependencies. 
And I suspect lots of gfx stuff will die if I remove the exec bits from it.

Looking at the lsof output, there is no diff in the count when turning 
the camera on and off. if libgphoto is grabbing it, shouldn't the count 
go up?
gene at coyote:~$ lsof |wc -l (camera off for several minutes)
186898
gene at coyote:~$ lsof |wc -l (5 secs after camera on)
186898
it does not, inferring that gphoto2 is not the cause.

I'm open to suggestions that work. But I'm not willing to teardown the 
system to prove they didn't cause the problem.  I'd blame it on the 
AppImage format, but debians 7.8 version also fails. I have the feeling 
its something about my raid10 /home directory, or possibly a new ACL 
problem, they claim the security has been tightened but that doesn't 
explain the 1 minute plus that an AppImage takes to open a file 
requestor, digiKam won't wait, openscad and cura will so I sit and OD on 
coffee while I wait after clicking the mouse to just do it.  Damned 
frustrating.

Thank you Gilles
> 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/>