Nikon camera does not mount

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When I plug in my Nikon, journalctl gives me this:

Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 13
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: new high-speed USB device number 14 using xhci_hcd
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device found, idVendor=04b0, idProduct=0431, bcdDevice= 1.00
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=3
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: Product: NIKON DSC D5300
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: Manufacturer: NIKON
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: SerialNumber: 6155493
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar mtp-probe[629480]: checking bus 3, device 14: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2"
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar mtp-probe[629480]: bus: 3, device: 14 was not an MTP device
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar mtp-probe[629483]: checking bus 3, device 14: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2"
Jul 27 11:36:45 darkstar mtp-probe[629483]: bus: 3, device: 14 was not an MTP device
Jul 27 11:36:46 darkstar mtp-probe[629516]: checking bus 3, device 14: "/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:14.0/usb3/3-2"
Jul 27 11:36:46 darkstar mtp-probe[629516]: bus: 3, device: 14 was not an MTP device
Jul 27 11:36:46 darkstar kernel: usb 3-2: USB disconnect, device number 14

However, it does not appear anywhere, neither on desktop nor in Thunar. What do I need to do?

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Do you have installed gvfs-photo2 and gphoto2 ?
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Yes, that is installed.

gphoto2 --auto-detect
Modell                         Port                                            
----------------------------------------------------------
Nikon DSC D5300                usb:003,016

Shotwell lists the camera, but it cannot access its contents.

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Some Nikon cameras use PTP instead of MSC or MTP protocol for memory access, for PTP you need to install gvfs-gphoto2 package.

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Ok, installed that, too. But it does not seem to make any difference. What is supposed to happen?

In the meantime I found out, that I can at least access the camera with darktable. I’d still would want to be able to access it directly with Thunar, though. In the past, with KDE, this used to work flawlessly. I don’t know what happened.

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First, see if gvfs-gphoto2 is running

ps aux|grep gvfs-gphoto2

When using

gphoto2 --auto-detect

you would see 2 lines, one showing the camera as above and one showing the memory.
And Thunar needs to be stopped with

thunar -q

so you can stop Thunar-daemon before restarting it.

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And there it is! Yehaa!
Thank you, @Pouet !