F-Spot crashes while importing photos from camera

[Jonathan Avraham]

Binary package hint: f-spot

Latest patched Ubuntu 8.10
AMD Athlon XP 2600
Canon A590IS camera working with PTP

After importing some images, the import stops, retrying doesn't work and canceling crashes f-spot with the following message:

F-Spot Encountered a Fatal Error

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

An unhandled exception was thrown: Object reference not set to an instance of an object

  at FileImportBackend.Prepare () [0x00000]
  at ImportCommand.DoImport (.ImportBackend imp) [0x00000]
  at ImportCommand.ImportFromPaths (.PhotoStore store, System.String[] paths, FSpot.Tag[] tags, Boolean copy) [0x00000]
  at ImportCommand.ImportFromPaths (.PhotoStore store, System.String[] paths, FSpot.Tag[] tags) [0x00000]
  at FSpot.CameraFileSelectionDialog.ImportFiles () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.CameraFileSelectionDialog.Run () [0x00000]
  at MainWindow.ImportCamera (System.String camera_device) [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Core+ImportCommand.Execute () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Core.Import (System.String path) [0x00000]
  at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
.NET Version: 2.0.50727.42

Assembly Version Information:

libgphoto2-sharp (1.0.3230.34451)
CDExport (0.0.0.0)
FlickrExport (0.0.0.0)
GalleryExport (0.0.0.0)
FolderExport (0.0.0.0)
FacebookExport (0.1.0.0)
HashJob (0.0.0.0)
PicasaWebExport (0.0.0.0)
pango-sharp (2.12.0.0)
SemWeb (0.7.1.0)
glade-sharp (2.12.0.0)
FSpot.JobScheduler (0.0.0.0)
System.Transactions (2.0.0.0)
System.Configuration (2.0.0.0)
FSpot.Widgets (0.0.0.0)
System.Xml (2.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.Proxies (0.0.0.0)
gconf-sharp (2.20.0.0)
System.Data (2.0.0.0)
Mono.Data.SqliteClient (2.0.0.0)
FSpot.Query (0.0.0.0)
gdk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gnome-vfs-sharp (2.20.0.0)
NDesk.DBus.GLib (1.0.0.0)
NDesk.DBus (1.0.0.0)
Mono.Posix (2.0.0.0)
Cms (0.0.0.0)
System (2.0.0.0)
FSpot.Utils (0.0.0.0)
FSpot.Core (0.0.0.0)
atk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gtk-sharp (2.12.0.0)
Mono.Addins (0.3.0.0)
Mono.Addins.Setup (0.3.0.0)
glib-sharp (2.12.0.0)
gnome-sharp (2.20.0.0)
f-spot (0.5.0.3)
mscorlib (2.0.0.0)

Platform Information: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686 unknown GNU/Linux

Distribution Information:

[/etc/debian_version]
lenny/sid

[/etc/lsb-release]
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
Package: f-spot 0.5.0.3-0ubuntu4
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: f-spot
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic i686

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

thanks for the report Jonathan, could you try the same with jaunty?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.

[liquidpele (liquidpele)]

I have this issue in Jaunty.

Steps:
1) plug camera into computer via USB
2) Gnome prompts me to open with F-spot or file editor, I choose F-spot
3) F-spot opens and gives me a popup to move files with all files highlighted.
4) I highlight only 1 file, and change location to move them to /home/user/Pictures
5) Try to copy and I get the errors. See attached screenshot errors, which happen before the actual crash.

[liquidpele (liquidpele)]

Sorry, I'll add some clarification to my last post. The screenshot shows the first error given. If I then try to cancel out of the operation, I get the error shown by the original poster who reported this bug.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Please open a new report, this one was closed several months ago.