After Upgrade to Gutsy f-spot won't start: "The database is locked"

[Béné]

Binary package hint: f-spot

After upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy I am seeing another problem with the migration of my f-spot database to the newest format. Upon launching the application it crashes immediately with the following output:

$f-spot --debug
** Running f-spot in Debug Mode **
** Running Mono with --debug **
Starting new FSpot server
Updating F-Spot Database

Unhandled Exception: Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteBusyException: The database is locked.
  at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteStatement (IntPtr pStmt, System.Int32& cols, System.IntPtr& pazValue, System.IntPtr& pazColName) [0x00000]
  at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteStatement (IntPtr pStmt) [0x00000]
  at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader (CommandBehavior behavior, Boolean want_results, System.Int32& rows_affected) [0x00000]
  at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000]
  at Banshee.Database.QueuedSqliteCommand.Execute () [0x00000]

When I move ~/.gnome2/f-spot out of the way f-spot launches just fine. (I am a little terrified at the thought of losing my photo collection, though!)

F-Spot version: 0.4.2
Ubuntu Hardy

[Béné (bene-d)]

It has now magically started to work. Maybe because of some update? Maybe because of the good weather? I don't know why, but it works. :) Thanks for your patience.