gphoto2 & USB access

Net Llama! netllama
Mon May 17 11:32:56 PDT 2004


On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Tom Condon wrote:
> On Friday 07 June 2002 09:11, Net Llama! carved in granite:
> > It might help if you told us what the problem was.  All i see is "it
> > doesn't work".
>
> Sorry, sometimes my mind isn't all I seem to remember it once was.
>
> Here is the output of a command:
>
> *********************************************************
> tom at blanket:~> gphoto2 --get-all-files
>
> *** Error ***
> An error occurred in the io-library ('Could not claim the USB device'):
> Could not claim interface 0 (Operation not permitted). Make sure no
> other program or kernel module (i.e. dc2xx) is using the device and you
> have read/write access to the device.
> *** Error ('Could not claim the USB device') ***
>
> For debugging messages, please use the --debug option.
> Debugging messages may help finding a solution to your problem.
> If you intend to send any error or debug messages to the gphoto
> developer mailing list <gphoto-devel at gphoto.org>, please run
> gphoto2 as follows:
>
>     env LANG=C gphoto2 --debug --get-all-files
>
> Please make sure there is sufficient quoting around the arguments.
>
> tom at blanket:~>
> *********************************************************
>
> The same command works fine as root and downloads all of the files in
> the camera memory chip.

And what does the output look like when running the same command with the
--debug option as the 'tom' user?

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