Hi, I'm running Debian sid with kernel 267 (problem happens with 268 too). If I have udev installed and running, my olympus d230 usb camera is not always recognised when I plug it in. It's intermittent, it has only ever been recognised once. If I remove udev and reboot, the camera is always recognised and available via one of the sd device nodes. This was logged when I plugged the camera in hence why I've sent this email: syslog:Oct 11 22:15:50 tranquillitatis wait_for_sysfs[5506]: error: wait_for_sysfs needs an update to handle the device '/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0' properly, please report to This is what is logged to /var/log/messages: Oct 11 22:15:45 tranquillitatis kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 Oct 11 22:15:45 tranquillitatis kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 11 22:15:50 tranquillitatis kernel: usb 1-1: control timeout on ep0in Oct 11 22:16:00 tranquillitatis hal.hotplug[5525]: timout(10000 ms) waiting for /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0 Oct 11 22:16:02 tranquillitatis usb.agent[5529]: usb-storage: already loaded Oct 11 22:16:02 tranquillitatis usb.agent[5529]: libgphoto2: loaded successfully Prior to installing udev this is what would happen: Oct 3 23:39:47 tranquillitatis kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 2 Oct 3 23:39:48 tranquillitatis kernel: scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 3 23:39:48 tranquillitatis usb.agent[3437]: usb-storage: already loaded Oct 3 23:39:49 tranquillitatis usb.agent[3437]: libgphoto2: loaded successfully Oct 3 23:39:49 tranquillitatis kernel: Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: D-230 Rev: 1.00 Oct 3 23:39:49 tranquillitatis kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 3 23:39:49 tranquillitatis scsi.agent[3509]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host0/0:0:0:0 Oct 3 23:39:49 tranquillitatis kernel: SCSI device sda: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) Oct 3 23:39:50 tranquillitatis kernel: sda: Write Protect is off Oct 3 23:39:50 tranquillitatis kernel: /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Oct 3 23:39:50 tranquillitatis kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 The one time it did work, this was printed: Oct 3 01:09:49 tranquillitatis kernel: usb 1-1: new full speed USB device using address 8 Oct 3 01:09:50 tranquillitatis kernel: scsi12 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis kernel: Vendor: OLYMPUS Model: D-230 Rev: 1.00 Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis kernel: SCSI device sdb: 256000 512-byte hdwr sectors (131 MB) Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis kernel: sdb: Write Protect is off Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis kernel: /dev/scsi/host12/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis kernel: Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi12, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Oct 3 01:09:51 tranquillitatis scsi.agent[8113]: disk at /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.2/usb1/1-1/1-1:1.0/host12/12:0:0:0 Oct 3 01:09:52 tranquillitatis udev: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 72 applied, added symlink 'olympus_d230' Oct 3 01:09:52 tranquillitatis udev: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 72 applied, 'sdb' becomes '%k' Oct 3 01:09:52 tranquillitatis udev: creating device node '/dev/sdb' Oct 3 01:09:52 tranquillitatis udev: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 72 applied, added symlink 'olympus_d230' Oct 3 01:09:52 tranquillitatis udev: configured rule in '/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules' at line 72 applied, 'sdb1' becomes '%k' Oct 3 01:09:52 tranquillitatis udev: creating device node '/dev/sdb1' Oct 3 01:09:53 tranquillitatis usb.agent[8107]: libgphoto2: loaded successfully If there's any more info you require then please mail me back. Cheers Luke