afaik, hal is deprecated, and was removed from the distribution. Yet, libgphoto2 still ship a file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/10-camera-libgphoto2.fdi , that create unowned directory in /usr/share/hal ~ $ rpm -qf /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty/ file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/20thirdparty is not owned by any package can this file be removed from libgphoto2 ?
libgphoto2-2.5.1.1-1.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/libgphoto2-2.5.1.1-1.fc18
Package libgphoto2-2.5.1.1-1.fc18: * should fix your issue, * was pushed to the Fedora 18 testing repository, * should be available at your local mirror within two days. Update it with: # su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing libgphoto2-2.5.1.1-1.fc18' as soon as you are able to. Please go to the following url: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2013-2740/libgphoto2-2.5.1.1-1.fc18 then log in and leave karma (feedback).
libgphoto2-2.5.1.1-1.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.