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"Could not claim interface on camera: -6" when trying to connect usb camera (Kinect)

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Problem

I have installed the freenect library from openkinect.org. With that library there is a demo application which you can run from the terminal to test out the Kinect. However when I run this command I get the following output: This particular error is thrown by the library libusb by the function libu…

Error Output

richard@behemoth:~$ sudo freenect-glview 
Kinect camera test
Number of devices found: 1
Could not claim interface on camera: -6
Could not open device

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Fix for: "Could not claim interface on camera: -6" when trying to connect usb camera (Kinect)

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I don't have your environment and cannot test, but this excerpt from the gphoto FAQ seems to say that this might be a matter of permissions, rather than some program monopolizing the interface. The following quote contains a link to the Setting up p…

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