unable to mount camera

[David Ireland]

Camera is Panasonic fz28
kern log is as follows
Oct 6 14:58:13 davidi-laptop kernel: [18662.832040] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 5
Oct 6 14:58:25 davidi-laptop kernel: [18674.724156] usb 1-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
Oct 6 14:58:25 davidi-laptop kernel: [18674.859437] usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Oct 6 14:58:25 davidi-laptop kernel: [18674.864698] scsi8 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
Oct 6 14:58:25 davidi-laptop kernel: [18674.869496] usb-storage: device found at 6
Oct 6 14:58:25 davidi-laptop kernel: [18674.869507] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning

Then popup
 Unable to mount Panasonic (Matsushita) Lumix DMC-FZ10 Camera
Error initialising camera: -1: Unspecified error
Using Interpid Ibex on HP Pavilion laptop.
No such problem until upgraded from Hardy

[lemonade (lemonade)]

I can confirm this. I have exactly same camera, so don't know if this affects other models too.

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

I have an fz8. Same problem.

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

If I stop hal, I can mount the camera by hand ("mount /dev/sda1 /mnt").

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

I can also mount the camera automatically if I remove all references to Panasonic cameras from /usr/share/hal/fdi/preprobe/10osvendor/20-libgphoto2.fdi . After this removal, the camera is recognized as a generic USB device.

[none (ubuntu-bugs-nullinfinity-deactivatedaccount)]

I should say that when mounting, I get errors in dmesg:

[ 360.669425] attempt to access beyond end of device
[ 360.669455] sdb: rw=0, want=2012160, limit=2012159

but they appear to be non-fatal. I did read somewhere that the camera has an off-by-one bug when formatting SD cards, so this may simply be a manifestation of that.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 282823, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.