digital camera show a popup message: -60 could not lock the device message, after mounts and launch twice

[Baruco]

Ubuntu 9.04 mount with issues my Reflex Sony Alpha 200 camera.

It worked fine in Ubuntu 8.04.1 and 8.10

An error box pops up saying:

Unable to mount Sony Alpha 200 Camera

Error initializing camera: -60: Could not lock the device

After shows twice the camera icon on the Desktop and launch twice the F-Spot

[Baruco (baruco)]

after a work with F-Spot am unable to browse the photos inside the camera using Nautilus and nautilus duplicate the icon

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Possible duplicate: #381531 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gphotofs/+bug/381531

[Kevin Wortman (kwortman)]

I have the same problem with a Kodak EasyShare Z730.

[Fell (aaronfell)]

Same problem here, Kodak M1033. Worked 'out the box' with Hardy but Karmic gives the behaviour described in the bug description above.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better.
Is this bug reproducible with the latest Lucid packages ?
Thanks in advance.

[Kevin Wortman (kwortman)]

This is still a problem on Lucid. When I plug in the camera I get the same "Error initializing camera: -60: Could not lock the device" error dialog box, two instances of the dialog box that asks what to do with the camera, and the camera does not appear to be mounted on the desktop. If I say to open F-Spot in the topmost dialog box, then F-Spot is able to talk to the camera and download pictures despite the camera not being mounted.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello Kevin.
In order to confirm this bug, can you please connect the camera and attach again these updated files:
/var/log/syslog
/var/log/dmesg
/var/log/kern.log
/var/log/bootstrap
/var/log/debug
/var/log/faillog
Thanks
:)Fabio

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage .

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[Kevin Wortman (kwortman)]

I attached the relevant lines of the log files requested by Fabio.

I'm not sure whether this should be filed against storage or nautilus.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Hello kevin.
you wrote: Error initializing camera: -60: Could not lock the device
then i'm oriented to a missed module in the kernel.
So please attach the entire file that i request, because the problem can be on others lines, so i can confirm the bug and the triagers can analize it.
Regards
:)Fabio

[Kevin Wortman (kwortman)]

I attached the full files. /var/log/bootstrap did not exist.

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[bford16 (bford16)]

Here is a workaround. (Works for Kodak M883.)

1. Dismiss the error message "Error -60: unable to...lock device."
2. Cancel the dialogs that offer to open f-spot.
3. Right-click the two camera icons on the desktop and choose 'unmount.'
4. Open f-spot, and import photos. The camera will be available as a source.

Comment: Ubuntu should connect the camera, but not mount its filesystems. if the camera is connect, but the filesystems are not mounted, f-spot can import photos normally. Just guessing, but I think f-spot mounts the filesystems on demand.

[Zoubidoo (zoubidoo)]

Possible upstream: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=623809

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

hello
Could someone running maverick tell if this issue is fixed ?
Thanks
fabio

[Kevin Wortman (kwortman)]

Yes, the problem is still present in maverick.

[greh (greh-vp)]

Bug not only in maverick, in Natty present too as well. :(

[Fabio Marconi (fabiomarconi)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.
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[Kevin Wortman (kwortman)]

On oneiric the behavior is still the same as what I described in my post #9 above. Still the -60 dialog box plus two other dialog boxes about how to open the camera. Although now the default applciation is Shotwell instead of F-Spot. Thanks.