Shotwell never finishes writing metadata

[Ivan Sagalaev]

After upgrading from 0.12.9 to 0.13 shotwell starts rewriting metadata on every launch, going through the progress with the ever-slowing pace (i.e., each next % passes longer than the previous one). Upon reaching 99% it never completes the operation, I left it working through the night on my 5526 photos.

I'm aware of the similarly looking #894553 that was fixed in 0.13 but I started to see this behaviour only after upgrading so I thought it safer to file a new bug.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.10
Package: shotwell 0.13.0-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.22-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.5.2-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Sep 21 17:40:58 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to quantal on 2012-09-06 (15 days ago)

[Benjamin Kerensa (bkerensa)]

I am unable to reproduce this on 12.10 with shotwell 0.13.0-0ubuntu1

[Ivan Sagalaev (isagalaev)]

This might as well be something specific to my photos or the database. I'm happy to try to clear any caches or log something, I just don't know how :-)

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

This sounds like this bug known upstream:

http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5843

We're planning to investigate for 0.13.1.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[CLI (m-wichtowski)]

My db size is about 35000 of photos and after upgrading to 0.13, running shotwell kills my netbook (100% CPU i IO) with log similar to bug #4297 (at yorba). Unfortunately, removing (not purging) shotwell destroyed my .shotwell directory. I've downgraded to version 0.12.3, restored .shotwell from backup, but problem still exists. Disabling writing to metadata is not the solution: log is full of "No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr`" and I need to kill shotwell soon after running it.

[Ivan Sagalaev (isagalaev)]

btw, where is this log I keep hearing about? I'd like to look at mine too to confirm if it's the same issue.

[Ivan Sagalaev (isagalaev)]

OK, with the power of `locate` I've located the log in ~/.cache/shotwell/shotwell.log and I can confirm it's the same for me:

    L 4642 2012-09-22 22:27:45 [MSG] MetadataWriter.vala:599: Completed writing metadata for [5757] .../P1070823.JPG (.../P1070823_modified.JPG)
    L 4642 2012-09-22 22:27:45 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
    L 4642 2012-09-22 22:27:45 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'

These three lines are repeated forever for this particular file. I can attach it here (or to the ticket at Yorba Redmine) if needed.

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

The slow metadata writing has been fixed in trunk. The metadata writing never completing is actually ticketed at http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4297

[mrbean71 (m-marti)]

Same here:
marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963_modificata.JPG)
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:25 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:25 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:29 [MSG] MetadataWriter.vala:599: Completed writing metadata for [7220] /home/marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963.JPG (/home/marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963_modificata.JPG)
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:29 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:29 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:32 [MSG] MetadataWriter.vala:599: Completed writing metadata for [7220] /home/marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963.JPG (/home/marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963_modificata.JPG)
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:32 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:32 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:35 [MSG] MetadataWriter.vala:599: Completed writing metadata for [7220] /home/marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963.JPG (/home/marco/Immagini/2012/11/03/DSC_7963_modificata.JPG)
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:35 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'
L 22932 2012-11-04 14:34:35 [WRN] No namespace info available for XMP prefix `lr'

[Marco Martini (marco-martini1971)]

Hello i'have the same problem on ubuntu 12.10 64 bit and shotwell from repository (0.13.1)
only work around disable writing labels in files option.