System freezes when using F-spot slide show

[gerjantd]

Binary package hint: f-spot

Actually this might not be F-spot at all, but I don't know where else to start. Following up on the request to file a debug report in the similar looking bug #264343, I'm attaching-spot-debug.txt and Xorg.0.log.

System seems to lock up completely: no more keyboard + mouse input, audio halts, X doesn't respond to Ctrl Alt Backspace and even Alt SysRq s u b doesn't work either. Haven't tried remote access.

I'm running Compiz but the same freeze occurred when disabling desktop effects.

gerjan@knopje:/var/log$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

gerjan@knopje:/var/log$ apt-cache policy f-spot
f-spot:
  Installed: 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu2
  Candidate: 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report, but there's nothing on the files you attached that may indicate a hang or that f-spot is causing the system freeze, do you get the same with another application like eog, evince or totem at fullscreen?

[gerjantd (gerjan)]

Thanks for looking into this. I tried full screen in eog, evince and totem. None of those seem to cause any problems.

Actually, the same holds for full screen in f-spot: it seems to work fine in full screen mode. But the slide show is misbehaving. Could it be anything to do with the transition effect? There's a strange flicker before the first slide is displayed, then a couple show up fine, with a sort of fade to white (?) between the slides, and then the system just freezes.

Is there a way to disable the transition effect?

Something else I've noticed: after stopping (pressing power for 4s) and shortly thereafter booting, the last image (the slide displayed when the freeze occurs) is visible for a couple of milliseconds, just before the gdm login screen comes up. I guess this is just a physical phenomenon related to some property of the hardware, not sure if it's any help but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

[gerjantd (gerjan)]

This problem seems to have disappeared after upgrading to Jaunty beta.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

closing since that works correctly now