[gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

Howdy,

I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
asked it to save them too.  This used to work fine when I had this sort
of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. 

I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
issue.  This is what permissions look like:

drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013

[ebuild   R   ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0  USE="debug nls -gimp -gnome"

This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program.  What could
cause this?  Anyone else run into this?

While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I
try to connect to my Camera to download.  It can't even think about
getting pics. 

Thoughts?

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Mick]

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On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
> fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
> getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
> always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
> asked it to save them too.  

Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard coded in 
there as the default saving path?


> This used to work fine when I had this sort
> of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
> like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place.
> 
> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
> but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
> issue.  This is what permissions look like:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013
> 
> [ebuild   R   ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0  USE="debug nls -gimp -gnome"
> 
> This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program.  

Not sure of helper programs involved, but Gtkam is just the GUI front for 
media-gfx/gphoto2.


> What could
> cause this?  Anyone else run into this?
> 
> While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I
> try to connect to my Camera to download.  It can't even think about
> getting pics.
> 
> Thoughts?

Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's 
powersupply?

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Regards,
Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

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Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera. I already put up with the
>> fact that it crashes a LOT. It really gets on my nerves but sort of
>> getting used to that. Now I have a new issue. When I tell it to save a
>> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
>> always saves them to /home/dale. It does this regardless of what I have
>> asked it to save them too.
>
> Is there a config file you can have a look at and see if it is hard
coded in
> there as the default saving path?
>
>
>> This used to work fine when I had this sort
>> of thing mounted on a directory called /data. It would go something
>> like this: /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ That would work fine. When I
>> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
>> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place.
>>
>> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
>> but still get the same thing. I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
>> issue. This is what permissions look like:
>>
>> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users 4096 Dec 9 2009 2009
>> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users 4096 Nov 16 2011 2010
>> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users 4096 Dec 30 2011 2011
>> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users 4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
>> drwxrwxr-x 4 dale users 4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013
>>
>> [ebuild R ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 USE="debug nls -gimp -gnome"
>>
>> This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program.
>
> Not sure of helper programs involved, but Gtkam is just the GUI front for
> media-gfx/gphoto2.
>

I found the config file, it was in .gphoto instead of gtkam.  That
helped.  I renamed it and it still does the same thing.  I played with
it a bit, it seems to just recall whatever was last used.  If I change
to a different directory, it just changes to the new location but still
saves to /home/dale even tho that is not what is recorded in the file. 
So, it accepts what I tell it but does its own thing.  Weird.  This is
the new error with a shiney new config:

(gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "clearlooks",

(gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "clearlooks",

(gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
non-zero page size is deprecated

(gtkam:12081): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
non-zero page size is deprecated

Google was no help on this error either.

I noticed something else tho.  I don't have gphoto2 installed here.  I
have libgphoto2 tho.  Should I have gphoto2 installed too?

root@fireball / # emerge -pv gphoto2

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/cdk-5.0.20090215  USE="-examples" 420 kB
[ebuild  N     ] media-gfx/gphoto2-2.4.14  USE="exif ncurses nls
readline -aalib" 654 kB

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1,073 kB
root@fireball / #  equery list *photo*
 * Searching for *photo* ...
[IP-] [  ] media-gfx/kphotoalbum-4.2:4
[IP-] [  ] media-libs/libgphoto2-2.5.0:0
root@fireball / # equery b gtkam
 * Searching for gtkam ...
media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/images/gtkam)
media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/gtkam)
media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/bin/gtkam)
media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/omf/gtkam)
media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (/usr/share/gnome/help/gtkam)
root@fireball / # equery d libgphoto2
 * These packages depend on libgphoto2:
kde-base/kamera-4.9.5 (media-libs/libgphoto2)
media-gfx/digikam-2.9.0 (gphoto2 ? media-libs/libgphoto2)
media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0 (>=media-libs/libgphoto2-2.5.0)
root@fireball / #

So, gtkam pulled in libgphoto2 but should it also pull in gphoto2?

>
>> What could
>> cause this? Anyone else run into this?
>>
>> While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I
>> try to connect to my Camera to download. It can't even think about
>> getting pics.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's
> powersupply?
>

I wondered the same thing, everything else works fine.  I have a printer
and a cell phone that I use with it and I have used other cameras with
the same results.  So, it is weird that other devices work error free
but cameras have issues.  It does make one wonder what is up with that. 
I may try one of the older style ports that is for USB1 devices.  Then
again, I think the camera is for the newer ports.  May have to look in
the manual again to be sure.

Open to ideas still.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Mick]

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On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 15:16:02 Dale wrote:
> Mick wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote:

> I found the config file, it was in .gphoto instead of gtkam.  That
> helped.  I renamed it and it still does the same thing.  I played with
> it a bit, it seems to just recall whatever was last used.  If I change
> to a different directory, it just changes to the new location but still
> saves to /home/dale even tho that is not what is recorded in the file.
> So, it accepts what I tell it but does its own thing.  Weird.  

Did it have a path in there for saving your photos?


> I noticed something else tho.  I don't have gphoto2 installed here.  I
> have libgphoto2 tho.  Should I have gphoto2 installed too?

No.

gphoto2 is the CLI application for using libgphoto2.

gtkam is the GUI application for using libgphoto2.


> So, gtkam pulled in libgphoto2 but should it also pull in gphoto2?

No.  Both gtkam and gphoto2 depend on the libgphoto2 library.  Just different 
user fronts to access the same engine. 


> > Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's
> > powersupply?
> 
> I wondered the same thing, everything else works fine.  I have a printer
> and a cell phone that I use with it and I have used other cameras with
> the same results.  So, it is weird that other devices work error free
> but cameras have issues.  It does make one wonder what is up with that.
> I may try one of the older style ports that is for USB1 devices.  Then
> again, I think the camera is for the newer ports.  May have to look in
> the manual again to be sure.
> 
> Open to ideas still.

I would do some simple series of dd read/write tests to see how the flash card 
of the camera behaves compared to other USB devices.  If there is a 
significant difference then the problem is probably device/hardware related, 
rather than the application you use to access it with.

Make sure you do not unplug it in haste.  It takes time for the I/O buffer to 
empty when you are writing to it, despite what your terminal/GUI is telling 
you.  If you have Gkrellms keep an eye on the Disk access to see when it 
finished doing it and then unmount it cleanly.  I know you know all this, but 
having been impatient myself and losing data I'd rather repeat it here, just 
as a cautionary tale.  ;-)

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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 15:16:02 Dale wrote:
>> Mick wrote:
>>> On Saturday 02 Feb 2013 07:50:45 Dale wrote:
>> I found the config file, it was in .gphoto instead of gtkam.  That
>> helped.  I renamed it and it still does the same thing.  I played with
>> it a bit, it seems to just recall whatever was last used.  If I change
>> to a different directory, it just changes to the new location but still
>> saves to /home/dale even tho that is not what is recorded in the file.
>> So, it accepts what I tell it but does its own thing.  Weird.  
> Did it have a path in there for saving your photos?

It did but it changes when I try to save to another directory.  It sees
and stores the change but saves it to /home/dale/ no matter what.  I
tried saving some random pics to different places and it updates the
config file each time.  It ignores it but it does change the file
correctly. 

>
>
>> I noticed something else tho.  I don't have gphoto2 installed here.  I
>> have libgphoto2 tho.  Should I have gphoto2 installed too?
> No.
>
> gphoto2 is the CLI application for using libgphoto2.
>
> gtkam is the GUI application for using libgphoto2.
>
>
>> So, gtkam pulled in libgphoto2 but should it also pull in gphoto2?
> No.  Both gtkam and gphoto2 depend on the libgphoto2 library.  Just different 
> user fronts to access the same engine. 
>

OK.  That's not the problem then.  Moving on to something else. 

>>> Could this be a hardware fault with your camera; the USB cable; it's
>>> powersupply?
>> I wondered the same thing, everything else works fine.  I have a printer
>> and a cell phone that I use with it and I have used other cameras with
>> the same results.  So, it is weird that other devices work error free
>> but cameras have issues.  It does make one wonder what is up with that.
>> I may try one of the older style ports that is for USB1 devices.  Then
>> again, I think the camera is for the newer ports.  May have to look in
>> the manual again to be sure.
>>
>> Open to ideas still.
> I would do some simple series of dd read/write tests to see how the flash card 
> of the camera behaves compared to other USB devices.  If there is a 
> significant difference then the problem is probably device/hardware related, 
> rather than the application you use to access it with.
>
> Make sure you do not unplug it in haste.  It takes time for the I/O buffer to 
> empty when you are writing to it, despite what your terminal/GUI is telling 
> you.  If you have Gkrellms keep an eye on the Disk access to see when it 
> finished doing it and then unmount it cleanly.  I know you know all this, but 
> having been impatient myself and losing data I'd rather repeat it here, just 
> as a cautionary tale.  ;-)
>

Well, I also have a card reader and it works fine.  I don't have any USB
hard drives tho.  I do have a couple USB sticks and they work fine as
well.  The ONLY thing that gives me problems is cameras and the camera
software.  Everything else works fine.  I do find it odd that two
totally separate programs crash when accessing the camera tho.  Thing
is, I have used different cameras with the same results. 

I always tell it before I disconnect so it can sync and make sure
everything is safe. 

Any more ideas?  Thanks for the help.

Dale

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[gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[walt]

On 02/01/2013 11:50 PM, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
> fact that it crashes a LOT.

I always start by running the problem program from a bash prompt so I can
look for error messages.  Then I check any config files in my ~/ directory,
usually using grep -ir to check for the name of the program or other strings
that the program would probably use for config stuff.

If that doesn't turn up anything useful I resort to running the program
with strace to see which files it's trying to open.  I think most newer
programs use gui file dialogs when you are asked to specify a default
directory, but a few older ones may ask you to type in a directory name
from the keyboard, and it's easy to misspell something.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 02/01/2013 11:50 PM, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
>> fact that it crashes a LOT.
> I always start by running the problem program from a bash prompt so I can
> look for error messages.  Then I check any config files in my ~/ directory,
> usually using grep -ir to check for the name of the program or other strings
> that the program would probably use for config stuff.
>
> If that doesn't turn up anything useful I resort to running the program
> with strace to see which files it's trying to open.  I think most newer
> programs use gui file dialogs when you are asked to specify a default
> directory, but a few older ones may ask you to type in a directory name
> from the keyboard, and it's easy to misspell something.
>
>
>


I get this:

(gtkam:10897): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "clearlooks",

(gtkam:10897): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
module_path: "clearlooks",

(gtkam:10897): Gtk-WARNING **: GtkSpinButton: setting an adjustment with
non-zero page size is deprecated

(gtkam:10897): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
gtk_file_chooser_default_set_current_name: assertion `impl->action ==
GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE || impl->action ==
GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER' failed


The first two lines are repeated, a lot.  I tried google, it wasn't in
english so I let it convert which usually doesn't end well.  Anyway, it
didn't help any since it seems they were having some sort of boot
troubles. 

Does that last bit make sense to anyone?  It shouldn't have to create
the folder since it is already there. 

Dale

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[gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[walt]

On 02/02/2013 06:45 AM, Dale wrote:
> walt wrote:
>> On 02/01/2013 11:50 PM, Dale wrote:
>>> Howdy,
>>>
>>> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
>>> fact that it crashes a LOT.

>> I always start by running the problem program from a bash prompt so I can
>> look for error messages.

> 
> I get this:
> 
> (gtkam:10897): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in
> module_path: "clearlooks",

clearlooks is the name of a gnome theme, and so you wouldn't have it on
your kde machine.  You can ignore that and other gtk "warnings".

> (gtkam:10897): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
> gtk_file_chooser_default_set_current_name: assertion `impl->action ==
> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE || impl->action ==
> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER' failed

Now that one looks suspicious. The only idea that comes to mind is that
gtkam for some reason is trying to save to some place you don't have
write privileges, like / or /run, maybe.  That's where I would trot out
strace, which will allow you to see exactly where gtkam is trying to
write when it fails.

The other trick I use is to create a new user with a new home directory
and try running gtkam from that account.  Often I find that the new user
doesn't see the same bug as my normal user, so at least I know the problem
is somewhere in my home directory, and strace will narrow the scope of
my debugging even more.

The "-y" and "-e file" flags for strace are very handy for this kind of
debugging problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

walt wrote:
> On 02/02/2013 06:45 AM, Dale wrote:
>
>> (gtkam:10897): Gtk-CRITICAL **:
>> gtk_file_chooser_default_set_current_name: assertion `impl->action ==
>> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_SAVE || impl->action ==
>> GTK_FILE_CHOOSER_ACTION_CREATE_FOLDER' failed
> Now that one looks suspicious. The only idea that comes to mind is that
> gtkam for some reason is trying to save to some place you don't have
> write privileges, like / or /run, maybe.  That's where I would trot out
> strace, which will allow you to see exactly where gtkam is trying to
> write when it fails.
>
> The other trick I use is to create a new user with a new home directory
> and try running gtkam from that account.  Often I find that the new user
> doesn't see the same bug as my normal user, so at least I know the problem
> is somewhere in my home directory, and strace will narrow the scope of
> my debugging even more.
>
> The "-y" and "-e file" flags for strace are very handy for this kind of
> debugging problem.
>
>

Just so happens I have a test user.  I logged out and then logged in
with the test user.  It did the same thing.  I can say, I have never
even tried to use gtkam as that user.  I told it to save some pics to
/home/dale2/Desktop and it saved them to /home/dale2/ again.  It still
ignores my settings. 

I tried something else too.  I have a separate partition for my
backups.  I changed the permissions for it and tried to save some pics
to that, it still tries to save to /home/dale/ and even complains that
they already exist, since they are their from the last time.  So, saving
to /backup doesn't work either.  It still wants to save to /home/dale no
matter what I do. 

So, since it does this as two different users, is this a program error? 
I'm going to google some more but not real sure what to look for.  I'm
also going to check the group file to see if something has been added
there that I need to be a member of.  I'm going to try a older version
of gtkam too. 

Any more ideas?

Thanks.

Dale

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Bruce Hill]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:50:45AM -0600, Dale wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
> fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
> getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
> always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
> asked it to save them too.  This used to work fine when I had this sort
> of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
> like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. 
> 
> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
> but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
> issue.  This is what permissions look like:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013
> 
> [ebuild   R   ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0  USE="debug nls -gimp -gnome"
> 
> This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program.  What could
> cause this?  Anyone else run into this?
> 
> While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I
> try to connect to my Camera to download.  It can't even think about
> getting pics. 
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Dale

Being partial to CLI, and haven't experienced goofy GUI apps like that in the
past, my choice is to remove the card from the camera (or use USB cable
attached to the camera), plug the card into a card reader, and rsync the
photos to my desired directory.

Whereas GUI photo apps work good in the darkside, we're lacking in Gentoo.

For my Canon EOS 20D this script is great:

mingdao@workstation ~ $ cat scripts/transfer-photos.sh
#!/bin/bash
mount /Canon-EOS
rsync -av /Canon-EOS/dcim/ /photos/
umount /Canon-EOS


There is a directory /photos/, and the following in /etc/fstab:

LABEL=EOS_DIGITAL       /Canon-EOS       vfat        noauto,users,rw,gid=1000,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,shortname=lower  0 0

Works great here.

Bruce
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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

Bruce Hill wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 02, 2013 at 01:50:45AM -0600, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
>> fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
>> getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
>> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
>> always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
>> asked it to save them too.  This used to work fine when I had this sort
>> of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
>> like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
>> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
>> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. 
>>
>> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
>> but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
>> issue.  This is what permissions look like:
>>
>> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
>> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
>> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
>> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
>> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013
>>
>> [ebuild   R   ~] media-gfx/gtkam-0.2.0  USE="debug nls -gimp -gnome"
>>
>> This is likely not Gtkam itself but some helper program.  What could
>> cause this?  Anyone else run into this?
>>
>> While I'm at it, I have tried other programs too. DigiKam crashes when I
>> try to connect to my Camera to download.  It can't even think about
>> getting pics. 
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Dale
> Being partial to CLI, and haven't experienced goofy GUI apps like that in the
> past, my choice is to remove the card from the camera (or use USB cable
> attached to the camera), plug the card into a card reader, and rsync the
> photos to my desired directory.
>
> Whereas GUI photo apps work good in the darkside, we're lacking in Gentoo.
>
> For my Canon EOS 20D this script is great:
>
> mingdao@workstation ~ $ cat scripts/transfer-photos.sh
> #!/bin/bash
> mount /Canon-EOS
> rsync -av /Canon-EOS/dcim/ /photos/
> umount /Canon-EOS
>
>
> There is a directory /photos/, and the following in /etc/fstab:
>
> LABEL=EOS_DIGITAL       /Canon-EOS       vfat        noauto,users,rw,gid=1000,dmask=0002,fmask=0113,shortname=lower  0 0
>
> Works great here.
>
> Bruce

Well, one reason I use gtkam is that I can rename the pics as it
transfers them over.  I date code mine and sometimes add other hints to
the name.  If I just copy them over from the card reader, it uses the
same name as the camera uses and that doesn't let me keep track as I
like too. 

I may see if digikam will import from the card reader thingy tho.  That
*may* work.  Still prefer to plug in my camera tho. 

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

Dale wrote:
> Well, one reason I use gtkam is that I can rename the pics as it
> transfers them over. I date code mine and sometimes add other hints to
> the name. If I just copy them over from the card reader, it uses the
> same name as the camera uses and that doesn't let me keep track as I
> like too. I may see if digikam will import from the card reader thingy
> tho. That *may* work. Still prefer to plug in my camera tho. Thanks.
> Dale :-) :-) 

OK.  I can get digikam to import from the card with a reader thingy.  It
took me a while, some hair pulling, a few threats of using a hammer but
I got it to name them like I want.  So, in the meantime I can get my
pics.  Thing is, to get to my card, I have to about disassemble the
camera.  I have to remove the mount for the tri-pod, the bottom and the
battery to get it out.  Well, it gives me a good excuse to charge the
battery.  Thing lasts for months on a charge tho.  That battery is
really long lasting. 

I still want to get gtkam fixed tho.  It's much faster and simpler for
me.  Digikam has lots of bells and whistles I don't need. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 


P. S.  For everyone else, never a crash or problem reading the card in
the card reader thingy using the exact same cable.  Worked like a
charm.  It seems USB just does not like cameras. 

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Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Walter Dnes]

> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
> fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
> getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
> always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
> asked it to save them too.  This used to work fine when I had this sort
> of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
> like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. 
> 
> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
> but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
> issue.  This is what permissions look like:
> 
> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013

  Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try...

chmod 777 Desktop

...and then try saving an image to Desktop.  BTW, do you have pam or acl
in use?

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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

Re: [gentoo-user] Gtkam getting on my nerves, again.

[Dale]

Walter Dnes wrote:
>> I use Gtkam to get pics from my Canon camera.  I already put up with the
>> fact that it crashes a LOT.  It really gets on my nerves but sort of
>> getting used to that.  Now I have a new issue.  When I tell it to save a
>> picture to say /home/dale/Desktop/Documents/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/ it
>> always saves them to /home/dale.  It does this regardless of what I have
>> asked it to save them too.  This used to work fine when I had this sort
>> of thing mounted on a directory called /data.  It would go something
>> like this:  /data/Camera-pics/2013/Yard/  That would work fine.  When I
>> got my shiney new 3Tb drive, I moved all that over to my home directory
>> and ever since then, Gtkam saves to the wrong place. 
>>
>> I have changed the permissions for /home/dale and EVERYTHING under it
>> but still get the same thing.  I'm 99% sure it is not a permissions
>> issue.  This is what permissions look like:
>>
>> drwxrwxr-x 27 dale users     4096 Dec  9  2009 2009
>> drwxrwxr-x 37 dale users     4096 Nov 16  2011 2010
>> drwxrwxr-x 31 dale users     4096 Dec 30  2011 2011
>> drwxrwxr-x 20 dale users     4096 Nov 12 01:20 2012
>> drwxrwxr-x  4 dale users     4096 Jan 30 03:00 2013
>   Grasping at straws here; from /home/dale try...
>
> chmod 777 Desktop
>
> ...and then try saving an image to Desktop.  BTW, do you have pam or acl
> in use?
>

Well, I cleaned out the camera pics so I'll have to take some more pics
to test.  After getting digikam to work by importing it through the card
reader, I got all the pics downloaded.  Then I cleaned out my card. 

Putting on the todo list.  I'll reply when I get some results. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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