Shotwell crashes when moving pictures from one event to another

[timbo]

Binary package hint: shotwell

Hi,

this bug affects shotwell 0.7.0 on my Lucid 64bit System.

It is pretty simple to reconstruct for me. If I merge all pictures from one event to another event, then on the next click in shotwell, the program crashes.

"(shotwell:9844): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed"

This happens every time I move pictures from one event to another event.

I hope this can be fixed.

[Jim Nelson (yorba-jim)]

Can you reproduce this every time, or was this a one-off?

If you can reproduce this, could you please do the following?

Run Shotwell from the console:

$ SHOTWELL_LOG=1 gdb shotwell 2>&1 | tee shotwell.txt

When the gdb prompt appears type this:

(gdb) run

When you reproduce the problem, the gdb prompt will reappear. Type this:

(gdb) backtrace full

This will produce a shotwell.txt file. If you could attach that to this ticket, that would help immensely.

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

I've created a ticket to track this upstream at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2477 .

I'm so far unable to reproduce this on my system (Ubuntu Lucid, 32 bit, Shotwell 0.7).

[timbo (timbolino)]

Hi,

thanks for the quick support.

Here the shotwell.txt.

Maybe it has something to do with the global-menu I use. But even if I turn off the global menu shotwell crashes everytime.

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

Timbo,

1) Where did you get the global menu plugin? Did you build it from source, or install a binary from somewhere? What version of it are you using?

2) You said the Shotwell crashes even if you turn off the global menu. How are you turning it off - through a preferences dialog, or by uninstalling it? Does the crash occur even if you uninstall the global menu plugin?

[Adam Dingle (adam-yorba)]

No need to answer my questions above. I can now reproduce this. I installed gnome-globalmenu 0.7.9 from the PPA at https://launchpad.net/~globalmenu-team/+archive/ppa . With the global menu running, I see the same crash you do. Even if I don't have the global menu active in any GNOME panel, I still see the crash:

(shotwell:28094): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_ref: assertion `object->ref_count > 0' failed

(shotwell:28094): GlobalMenu:Plugin-CRITICAL **: serializer_to_string: assertion `menubar != NULL' failed
/home/adam/bin/s: line 1: 28094 Segmentation fault (core dumped) .

The global menu plugin is still in the GTK stack even if you're not displaying it in any panel.

If you go to the global menu home page (http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/), you'll see that there are many applications it doesn't work with (http://code.google.com/p/gnome2-globalmenu/wiki/ApplicationCompatibility). So I'm marking the upstream Shotwell bug invalid; if you want to track this down further you'll need to talk to the global menu team. As it says on the global menu home page:

THIS IS NON-WARRANTED SOFTWARE. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK. IT KILLS KITTENS AND COMPUTERS TOO

[timbo (timbolino)]

Hi Adam,

thanks for your help.

The GlobalMenu Development seems to be very slow. So I dont think that my problem will be solved in the near future. So lets see what the new UNE globla menu can do for me.

BTW: You guys are doing a great job!

[timbo (timbolino)]

I tried now the new Global Menu that is coming with 10.10 and it works perfect with Shotwell!

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/05/application-menu-global-menu-for-ubuntu.html

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

the bug is rather in gnome2-global menu which is not seeing any active development. closing this bug as wontfix as done upstream.