I was finally able to access my camera (Canon EOS 40D) with my Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 by killing the process /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-gphoto2-volume-monitor before starting Shotwell. The import works fine then. Previously I was getting the same error message as in the bug description.
I was finally able to access my camera (Canon EOS 40D) with my Ubuntu 12.10 x86_64 by killing the process /usr/lib/ gvfs/gvfs- gphoto2- volume- monitor before starting Shotwell. The import works fine then. Previously I was getting the same error message as in the bug description.