On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 01:16:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote:
> On 6/26/23 12:18, songbird wrote:
> > gene heskett wrote:
> > > Greetimgs all;
> > >
> > > Something wiped my passwd so was forced to install bookworm. This time I
> > > install both kde and gnome desktops, gnome looks great, just one major
> > > problem.
> > >
> > > Something with "gvfsd-gphoto2 service" in its name is being blamed for
> > > digiKam being able to see the pix in the camera when a usb cable is
> > > plugged into it, but prevents digiKam from actually downloading the pix
> > > using its import menu. So what package or where is that controlled. I
> > > can kill it with htop, but its magicly restarted by plugging in the
> > > camera cable. Rendering a 400+ dollar camera into a useless desk ornament.
> > >
If you really don't want the gnome program that's doing this, just apt
autoremove it? [Or whatever command line package manager you want to use
that will allow a --dry-run option to check that it will remove only
the package you want to remove].
Maybe
apt-get remove gphoto2 --dry-run
Hope this helps,
Andy
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> >
> > yes, i found a similar problem when i was trying to get
> > pictures off my camera as the device was being grabbed by
> > something else instead of what i wanted.
> >
> > i developed a script to make sure the camera was unmounted
> > and then remounted where i wanted it.
> >
> > i don't have time to break it all out here but the script
> > is freely available at:
> >
> > https://github.com/flowerbug/camera_file
> >
> > it uses fusermount, gio and gphoto.
> >
> >
> It also deletes the camera's pix as it copies them out. DigiKam doesn't do
> that so I've always had a backup copy in the camera. So I won't dl this
> script.
>
> I'd much rather find the real problem and get it fixed.
>
> Thank you Songbird.
>
> > another script for moving and backing up files that is
> > for me a second step is at:
> >
> > https://github.com/flowerbug/mcol_pictures
> >
> > i hope this helps.
> >
> >
> > songbird
> >
> > .
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> --
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