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