F- Spot encountered fatal error

[Aravind S <aravind_s_in yahoo com>]

Hi,

I recently installed Suse 10.1 and F-Spot came along with it. I connected my canon SD700 IS for the first time to download pictures. F-Spot picked it up and it did the job absoultely fine. I was able to download all the pictures as well as videos into my laptop (Dell Inspiron 6000). But a couple of days ago something was not right. When I connected my camera it threw an error. This is what it reads.


An unhandled exception was thrown: Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)

  at DBus.Message.SendWithReplyAndBlock () [0x00000] 
  at FSpot.Core.Proxy.Import (System.String path) [0x00000] 
  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000] 
.NET Version: 1.1.4322.2032

Assembly Version Information:

Mono.CompilerServices.SymbolWriter (1.0.5000.0)
DBusProxy (0.0.0.0)
System.Data (1.0.5000.0)
Mono.Data.SqliteClient (1.0.5000.0)
Mono.Posix (1.0.5000.0)
gdk-sharp (2.8.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.8.0.0)
dbus-sharp (0.60.0.0)
System (1.0.5000.0)
atk-sharp (2.8.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.8.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.8.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.8.0.0)
f-spot (0.0.0.0)
mscorlib (1.0.5000.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.16.21-0.13-default i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Disribution Information:

[/etc/lsb-release]
LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.0-ia32"

[/etc/SuSE-release]
SUSE LINUX 10.1 (i586)
VERSION = 10.1


I removed F-Spot using YAST2 and reinstalled it. Even now I get the same error. Also I noticed that the error message has f-spot version as (0.0.0.0) while in YAST it shows it as 0.1.11-13. I also tried to install the latest f-spot (0.2.0), but unfortunately I am not able to run configure at all. I keep getting some errors about mono.pc not found or something like that. I do have the latest mono (I guess). I am a newbie to Linux and I would really appreciate if you can help me get this working properly. I have to say that, I was really impressed when I first saw F-Spot. Thank you for your time and effort in creating this software.

- aravind