Canon Powershot Elph 310hs camera not automatically mounted

[robertb]

We recently bought a canon point-and-shoot camera. It has a USB interface. I was expecting that, when I plugged it into the computer, it would automount the camera. It did not do that.

I found this thread

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor ... =564540#15

and I used the gvfs-mount trick which allowed me to import the photos via f-spot.

This thread refers to another bug which indicates that there is a problem with the udev rule to mount cameras via libgphoto2/gphoto2 .

Does the above referenced bug exist in the LMDE Gnome version of Linux Mint? If so, is it worth it to hand-hack the udev rules file to fix this problem.

Thanks.

[robertb]

I found http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=625872. It appears that this problem has not been fixed.

I whipped up a script which mounts the camera until this gets fixed:

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#!/bin/bash
lsusb | grep Canon > /tmp/canon.lsusb
if [ -s /tmp/canon.lsusb ]; then
        sed -e 's%^Bus \(.*\) Device \([^:]*\).*%gvfs-mount "gphoto2://[usb:\1,\2]"%' /tmp/canon.lsusb \
                | sh -xv
else
        echo mount_canon: cannot find Canon device! 1>&2
fi

It seems that shotwell should work better than either gthumb or f-spot (maybe it uses libgphoto2 directly?) and that would be the best long-term solution.