Ubuntu
f-spot package

can't launch F-spot from mounted media

Bug #203491 reported by Duncan Lithgow
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f-spot (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: f-spot

Ubuntu is version 8.04 updated 18. March
F-Spot is version 0.4.2
Media is an SD card (SecureDigital/MultiMediaCard) formatted FAT16 512MB

The SD card appears correctly on the desktop and from the right click context menu I can select "Open with F-Spot Photo Manager" but it fails to launch and produces no visible errors.
I can open the disk root whenI can see the DCIM directory. The information bar in Nautilus tells me that "The media contains digital photos" and gives me the option to open in F-Spot, but that also fails to launch F-Spot. Launched from the applications menu F-Spot seems to run fine except for the crash on exit reported elsewhere.

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Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote :

Is this bug because F-Spot cannot open a directory? or is there something bigger going on? I guess this is a newly introduced problem or there would be duplicates - but I couldn't find any.

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Alastair M. Robinson (robinsonb5) wrote :

I have this issue too, on a Compaq 6720s with integrated (USB behind the scenes) SD card slot.

I'm using a 2GB card from my Nikon D40 - the volume name is "NIKON D40" and it's mounted at /media/NIKON D40

I get a taskbar button appear that reads "Opening NIKON D40" and the pointer goes to a "busy cursor" for a few seconds but f-spot never launches.

I read elsewhere in the bug database that the auto-opening behaviour is no longer controlled through the Removable Drives and Media preferences panel - but through Nautilus itself. I couldn't see any obvious way of changing which application to use for photo import - I don't want to use f-spot anyway - I want to use my own CamCardSync app - but it looks like I can only use f-spot, have the folder opened for me in Nautilus or be prompted.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

Confirming now, as I also have the same issue. Is this related to bug 208467? Please mark as duplicate if someone more knowledgable than thinks so

Changed in f-spot:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

similar to bug #208467

Changed in f-spot:
importance: Undecided → Low
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Jon Elofson (jon-elofson) wrote :

Is this really caused by the same problem reported in #208467? The only extra information I can report is that I have two menu items for the same thing when I right-click on the SD card. Both say "Open with F-spot ..." The first one doesn't work. The second one does. I also get the "Opening KODAK..." when I first insert the card.

I completely removed f-spot and the one menu item was still there. The one the doesn't work.
I re-install and the second menu item comes back.
When browsing the card, the Open with F-Spot still doesn't work.

No problem if this really is the same as adding a camera as mentioned in the duplicate bug. I just want to be sure that it really is a dup.

How can I get rid of the first right-click context menu item?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

could you try using a different user on the same box, it's likely that the extra menu item is an user configuration change

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Jon Elofson (jon-elofson) wrote :

I suppose I could, but there is currently only one user account on the box right now. Should I create a new user, just to test for that? And why would one menu work, and not the other. It seems like it's left over from Gutsy; a post-upgrade artifact. If it is related to the user config, can I fix it manually?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

you should use the answer tracker to ask those questions and not comment on a closed bug

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