Rhythmbox interfering with Shotwell and others

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On Debian Squeeze with Gnome desktop . . .

I don't use my Canon Powershot A610 often.  Shotwell was working just fine in September.  As expected, it auto-launched and recognized the camera.

A few days ago it was broken.  I plugged in the camera and Shotwell did not auto-launch as usual and was unable to access the camera. The error message was:

"The camera is locked by another application. Shotwell can only access the camera when it's unlocked. Please close any other application using the camera and try again."

After some sleuthing I found this in .xsessions-errors:

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Please report this VID/PID and the device model to the libmtp development team
LIBMTP WARNING: no MTP vendor extension on device 16 on bus 3LIBMTP
WARNING: VendorExtensionID: 0000000bLIBMTP WARNING:
VendorExtensionDesc: (null)LIBMTP WARNING: this typically means the
device is PTP (i.e. a camera) but not an MTP device at all. Trying to
continue anyway.LIBMTP PANIC: could not inspect object property
descriptions!
LIBMTP PANIC: could not inspect object property descriptions!

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More sleuthing and I found a reference to rhythmbox.  I checked running processes and rhythmbox was sleeping.  I stopped it and Shotwell was able to recognize the camera again.

I tried several other options to access the camera and they were also broken until the rhythmbox process was stopped.

My system is updated and STABLE and I have never even used rhythmbox so I don't know what is launching this process.

Something has changed between September and now. Hope you can find and fix it.

Please copy responses to me as I am not a member of this list.

Thanks.