I am having the same problems. When I attach my Canon Ixus to an USB port, the import dialog pops up but after choosing to import the images, nothing is happening.
I am not sure if this is a problem with gthumb or gnome-volume-manager- gthumb. Here the ps output for the affecte processes: mechnich 7238 0.0 0.0 1720 480 ? S 10:58 0:00 /bin/sh -c gnome-volume-manager-gthumb /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_311c_noserial_if0 mechnich 7239 0.0 0.0 1716 492 ? S 10:58 0:00 /bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-volume-manager-gthumb /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/usb_device_4a9_311c_noserial_if0 mechnich 7241 0.5 0.7 20488 7944 ? S 10:58 0:00 gthumb --import-photos r -- gnome-volume-manager-gthumb stopped working in Feisty https://launchpad.net/bugs/78756 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs