F-Spot freezes the system

[brad]

Binary package hint: f-spot

F-Spot completely freezes the system requiring system reset.

Just a regular generic P4 intel chipset with onboard graphics, on a clean Karmic install. No messages in log files. Occasionally I can stop the system with PrtSC+H etc... but sometimes not even that'll work and I have to use the reset button on the machine.

Let me know what info you need.

[brad (netcom61)]

An update:

I'm thinking this bug has something to do with xorg, or the way the graphics processing are set up in Karmic Koala, because I just installed Picasa and I'm getting exactly the same problem: When processing images the system freezes completely.
If anybody has any idea which log files to look at or which dbug to install, or which argument to give when launching through the terminal so error messages are logged, I'd welcome any help/suggestions.
So far this behaviour is only an issue in Karmic Koala. To test my hardware, I installed Picasa on my Hardy Heron partition, (same machine), and it runs perfectly, as does F-Spot.

[brad (netcom61)]

brad@brad-desktop:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82845G/GL[Brookdale-G]/GE Chipset Integrated Graphics Device (rev 01)
$

[brad (netcom61)]

I'm attaching the output of | f-spot --debug

[brad (netcom61)]

Update: This report can probably be closed.

I traced the problem to the Gnome-Screensaver.

Disabling gnome-screensaver halts the problem. I think this issue is not related to f-spot at all.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

closing the report then, thanks.