https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457055
User tvrtko@ursulin.net added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=457055#c11
--- Comment #11 from Tvrtko Ursulin 2009-01-29 14:21:20 MST ---
Well this is bizarre.. I'll tell you what I did but bottom line is that it
seems to work now.
First I tested it on a different computer, one running Ubuntu 8.10 (can I say
that here? :) and which hasn't seen a camera connection ever. And gphoto2 -L
was also flaky there but in a different way. It was also a different version of
gphoto than here. It would work on first invocation and subsequent gphoto2 -L
would fail. Right I thought.. it is gphoto who is flaky.
So I went on to prove how it worked in 11 by downloading gphoto2 package from
11 and installed it into 11.1. Had to downgrade libltdl as well and I even
tried downgrading libusb but all to no avail - it still didn't work. In
retrospective, my mistake was that I haven't realised I need to downgrade
libgphoto2 as well. Never mind that I had a different plan.
I booted from 11 live CD, setup repositories and installed gphoto2. And it
worked, flawlessly.
Then rebooted back into my 11.1 system to put things back to normal. Get rid of
downgraded packages and re-installed correct versions.
And you know what? Now it seems to work just fine. One in every ten "gphoto2
-L" invocation fails with some error about failure to lock USB device but
nothing like I had before.
Only theory I have is, that since my 11.1 installation came to be via upgrades
from 11.1 Beta 5 and so on, something got fudged in the process. Which maybe is
not so surprising since I had hibernation and HAL issues caused by upgrade as
well in the past.
If the theory is correct maybe a generic work item about improving upgrading is
needed, or just documenting it as unreliable. Either way I think you can close
this one for now.
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