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Old 12-13-2008, 10:16 AM   #1
brianpbarnes
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F-Spot fatal error downloading Nikon D700 via ISB?


Hi,
I have never been able to get F-Spot to successfully download pictures from my D700. It gets the thumbnails alright, but crashes with a fatal error message as soon as I hit the go button.

Any recommendations on a simple, well behaved download program for digital cameras?

Here's the error text.

BrianP



An unhandled exception was thrown: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

at FileImportBackend.Prepare () [0x00000]
at ImportCommand.DoImport (.ImportBackend imp) [0x00000]
at ImportCommand.ImportFromPaths (.PhotoStore store, System.String[] paths, FSpot.Tag[] tags, Boolean copy) [0x00000]
at ImportCommand.ImportFromPaths (.PhotoStore store, System.String[] paths, FSpot.Tag[] tags) [0x00000]
at FSpot.CameraFileSelectionDialog.ImportFiles () [0x00000]
at FSpot.CameraFileSelectionDialog.Run () [0x00000]
at MainWindow.ImportCamera (System.String camera_device) [0x00000]
at FSpot.Core+ImportCommand.Execute () [0x00000]
at FSpot.Core.Import (System.String path) [0x00000]
at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

libgphoto2-sharp (1.0.3058.27729)
FolderExport (0.0.0.0)
FlickrExport (0.0.0.0)
PicasaWebExport (0.0.0.0)
CDExport (0.0.0.0)
SmugMugExport (0.0.0.0)
GalleryExport (0.0.0.0)
pango-sharp (2.12.0.0)
FSpot.Query (0.0.0.0)
SemWeb (0.7.1.0)
glade-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gtkhtml-sharp (3.16.0.0)
System.Transactions (2.0.0.0)
System.Data (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Data.SqliteClient (2.0.0.0)
System.Configuration (2.0.0.0)
System.Xml (2.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0)
gconf-sharp (2.20.0.0)
FSpot.Utils (0.0.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.20.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.3.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
Cms (0.0.0.0)
FSpot.Core (0.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.3.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.20.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.12.0.0)
f-spot (0.4.3.1)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.24-22-generic x86_64 unknown GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=hardy
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.04.1"
 
Old 12-14-2008, 02:51 AM   #2
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Report the error as a bug against f-spot.
There is g-photo et al.
However - the most reliable way with nikon is to access as a simple USB storage device. Drag and drop.
 
Old 12-20-2008, 09:24 AM   #3
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Drag & drop from where to where?

Simon,

> the most reliable way with nikon is to access as a simple USB storage device. Drag and drop.

After f-spot crashes, it is not visible anywhere. It would be nice if nautilus would show it as an ordinary disk drive like my external USB hard drive. I turn on the power and it magically appears in the tree column.

I can find it in the "KDE Contol Module" in applications -> other -> usb_devices. It shows the actual serial number of the camera as well as a dozen other tidbits, but there are no action buttons.

I right click on the D700 icon and get a "What's This?" popup.

I have to open my windows laptop, plug the camera in there, and use my Samba mount to dump it to ubuntu.

Am I the only ubuntu user with a digital camera?

BrianP
 
Old 12-20-2008, 10:22 AM   #4
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GPhoto?
I used Synaptic to load the gphoto2 and gphotofs packages. Then I made a d700 directory in my home directory.

I go to system -> control_center -> removeable_drives_and_media. Under the digital camera section, I check the checkbox and give it a command of "/usr/bin/gphotofs /home/brianp/d700".

When I turn the camera on, I get 1 of 3 results:
1) All nautilus windows go dark like applications do when they crash and you have to force kill them. Then everything goes back to normal and nothing else happens. The d700 directory is empty.
2) the d700 directory appears to be mounted with contents: store_00010001/DCIM/100ND700/(empty). I hope it didn't eat my pictures.
3) The pictures appear and I get a "protocol error" (???) when I try to copy & paste.

When I turn the camera off, I have to `umount gphotofs` as root.

Here's how it looks when mounted:
root@godzilla2:/home/brianp# grep 700 /etc/mtab
gphotofs /home/brianp/d700 fuse.gphotofs rw,nosuid,nodev,user=brianp 0 0

I know this is a new camera, but even brain-dead, 6-year-old xp can figure it out and it surely has never seen this camera. I can't believe that Nikon would change usb protocols with each new camera.

I wonder whether upgrading from ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 would fix more problems than it creates?

BrianP

P.S. After mounting and unmounting about a dozen times, I finally have a file transfer. It appears to work about 1 time out of 3??? It's easier just to open my laptop and use the evil os :-(
 
  


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