camera revisited

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 14 May 2004 08:01, Andy Green wrote:
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>On Friday 14 May 2004 12:42, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>You need the hotplug *package*, which should have been a
>>> dependency in the RPM.
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>>And the latest version of that is?  url please.
>
>Hotplug is in Fedora.  The latest version can be had from the
> development tree.  In fact, maybe that is something I should add --
> if you want the latest and greatest, the first stop should perhaps
> be the development tree / FC2 Test series.
>
>> I had nuked it by hand because I couldn't get past it in the
>> bootup about half the time, the other half wasted 2-3 minutes, and
>> both ways made megabytes of errors in the logs.  So rpm may think
>> its installed (rpm -e wouldn't let me remove it), but its
>> doubtfull & I should do a fresh install.  Maybe this time it'll
>> work right.
>
>Sorry, what did you nuke that made megabytes of errors in the logs?
> Hotplug??? If so no wonder you have troubles!

>- -Andy

Yes, I ran down anything that looked like an executable and nuked it.  
Before I did that, the bootup hung for serveral minutes, and generated 
megabytes of logging about stuff it couldn't find, or even hung the 
boot completely.  That was at least 6 months back up the log, maybe 8 
or 9.

Now, I've reinstalled hotplug-2004_01_05-1.noarch.rpm and 
hotplug-base-2004_01_05-1.noarch.rpm, and the boot is stalling on 
"Starting hotplug" for about a minute now, much faster than before, 
and my logs are filled with messages about not finding ide_probe_mod 
and ide_probe.  Now, the interesting thing is that in my updated 
modprobe.conf, those module aliases are listed as ide-probe and 
ide-probe-mod, note switch from underscore to dash as separators????

Nothing similar can be grepped out of the kernels .config either.

Which is correct, and what do I edit to fix it?

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>Automatic actions for USB cameras, cardreaders, memory sticks, MP3
> players http://warmcat.com/usbautocam

I installed this and did the usbautocam add for a directory to put the 
pix in the camera in, but now it plays the "nopix.wav" about 30 
seconds after I turn the camera on.  The logs contain:

May 14 08:01:28 coyote kernel: usb 3-2.2: new full speed USB device using address 6
May 14 08:01:28 coyote kernel: scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
May 14 08:01:28 coyote kernel:   Vendor: OLYMPUS   Model: C-3020ZOOM(U)     Rev: 1.00
May 14 08:01:28 coyote kernel:   Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
May 14 08:01:28 coyote kernel: Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
May 14 08:01:28 coyote scsi.agent[3039]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:11.4/usb3/3-2/3-2.2/3-2.2:1.0/host1/1:0:0:0
May 14 08:01:28 coyote modprobe: FATAL: Module sd_mod not found.
May 14 08:01:28 coyote automount[1757]: attempting to mount entry /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3080]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3080]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type vfat) on /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[1757]: attempting to mount entry /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3086]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3086]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type vfat) on /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[1757]: attempting to mount entry /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3095]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3095]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type vfat) on /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[1757]: attempting to mount entry /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3102]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3102]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type vfat) on /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[1757]: attempting to mount entry /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3109]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3109]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type vfat) on /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[1757]: attempting to mount entry /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3115]: >> mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
May 14 08:01:29 coyote automount[3115]: mount(generic): failed to mount /dev/sda1 (type vfat) on /misc/usbautocam
May 14 08:01:39 coyote kernel: usb 3-2.2: USB disconnect, address 6
May 14 08:01:39 coyote modprobe: FATAL: Module ide_probe_mod not found.
May 14 08:01:39 coyote modprobe: FATAL: Module ide_probe not found.

And I see a fatal, no sd_mod found in that.  That doesn't seem 
to fall out of any greps I've managed to concoct here either.

Of course, unless usbautocam made it, there is no /misc/usbautocam
directory.  No, /misc was empty, and I as root, cannot do a 
"mkdir /misc/usbautocam".  There is such a /misc dir, but its empty.
And mkdir returns a "no such file or directory" message.

Call me puzzled, a whole lot...

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