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On 12/20/2010 06:39 AM, walt wrote: |
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> On 12/19/2010 09:25 PM, Andy Wilkinson wrote: |
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>> To make matters worse, when gvfs/nautilus doesn't see the camera at all, |
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> > I have no idea at all how to find out what messages might have been |
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> sent |
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> > where, or why gvfs might not be seeing it... |
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> I use gnome, but have no camera so I can't give specific advise. But in |
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> general I try to get behind the gui by starting an app (like gphoto2) |
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> from |
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> a command prompt to see what error messages it may print. |
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> Some gui apps may have an optional flag like -v or --debug that will |
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> print |
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> more messages. (Or start it as "strace gphoto2" for even more fun.) |
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> I've never actually found a use for the various gvfs commandline apps, |
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> like |
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> gvfs-info et al, but you might be able to use them for debugging this |
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> puzzle. |
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> Worth fiddling with them, anyway. |
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> I've noticed several times that the gentoo-stable gnome is running |
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> mismatched |
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> versions of gnome apps, and if I just wait long enough the right |
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> version of |
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> something-or-other will be installed and something broken will start |
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> working |
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> again. The ~ version of gnome actually has fewer problems that way |
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> than the |
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> stable version. |
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Running strace on gphoto2 doesn't make a lot of sense to me, as gphoto2 |
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always works just fine. A trace on gthumb also doesn't make sense in my |
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mind, since it seems to correctly be telling me that gvfs doesn't see |
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anything more than it does, though I don't know enough to say for sure |
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that there's no separation. |
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If there was a way I could run a trace on gvfs itself, that might be |
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more profitable, but that sounds big and scary, and like something I'd |
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need help with. |
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I've looked around at the gvfs-*, and most of them seem to want me to |
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know what I want them to look at, and are mostly interested in telling |
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me about literal paths. I haven't found a way to get any of them to say |
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"Hey, I see your camera, and it doesn't work because X." |
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Your last paragraph rings truer to me. I just wish I had something |
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concrete to go on. ;) |
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Thanks, |
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-Andy |
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