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On Friday 30 December 2005 06:43, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: |
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> I had something alike and found that the hotplug script was looking |
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> for /var/run/console/console.lock to see who owned the console (and to use |
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> this info to chown the usbfile) |
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> You can easily check if you have the same problem: disconnect the camera, |
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> become root on the commandline and use |
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> cat loginname > /var/run/console/console.lock |
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> (so if you're logged in as michael use |
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> cat michael > /var/run/console/console.lock |
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> ) |
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> Plug in the camera and try to download the photo's. If it now works, you |
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> have the same problem which I had (and which has to do I think with |
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> pam_console which is a flag for emerging pam) |
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> Anyhow, as I got bored to create the lockfile every time I just "fixed" |
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> the /etc/hotplug/usb/usbcam to use my name whenever it couldn't find a lock |
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> file.. Somewhat ugly, but oh well.. |
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> Hope this helps.. |
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> Gerhard |
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> -- |
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> Ithaka photography, http://ithaka.mine.nu/ |
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This link may be helpful to those still looking at this... |
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http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html |
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Finally, Zippy drives his 1958 RAMBLER METROPOLITAN into the faculty |
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dining room. |
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