Unhandled Exception: GLib.GException: Value for PNG text chunk Thumb::URI cannot be converted to ISO-8859-1 encoding.

[Haggai Eran]

Binary package hint: f-spot

Hi,

I'm using Ubuntu Maverick (f-spot version 0.8.0-1). Some of my photos do not appear in browse mode, and when I try to open them f-spot crashes with the following output:

Unhandled Exception: GLib.GException: Value for PNG text chunk Thumb::URI cannot be converted to ISO-8859-1 encoding.
  at Gdk.Pixbuf.Savev (System.String filename, System.String type, System.String[] option_keys, System.String[] option_values) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at FSpot.Utils.XdgThumbnailSpec.CreateFrom (Hyena.SafeUri uri, Hyena.SafeUri thumb_uri, ThumbnailSize size, FSpot.Utils.PixbufLoader loader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at FSpot.Utils.XdgThumbnailSpec.LoadThumbnail (Hyena.SafeUri uri, ThumbnailSize size, FSpot.Utils.PixbufLoader loader) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at FSpot.Utils.XdgThumbnailSpec.LoadThumbnail (Hyena.SafeUri uri, ThumbnailSize size) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at FSpot.ThumbnailLoader.ProcessRequest (.RequestItem request) [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0
  at ImageLoaderThread.WorkerThread () [0x00000] in <filename unknown>:0

The path to the photo does not include only ISO-8859-1 characters, but is UTF-8 encoded. Is this the cause of the problem? I don't remember any problems with my paths in the previous versions of f-spot.

Regards,
Haggai

[David Raviv (davrav)]

I can confirm that.
f-spot worked fine with UTF-8 path until I've installed Maverick with f-spot 0.8.0. Currently thumbnails does not appear and the application crushes each time I choose to display an image yielding the aforementioned stuck trace.

Please let me know if you need further testing to be performed.
Thanks, David.

[Andrew Ivanov (aa.ivanov)]

I can confirm I'm suffering the above described issue ever since I upgraded to 10.10. I can open none of the images in f-spot and thumbnails regeneration also fails.

I have attempted to pull f-spot from the team's PPA (https://launchpad.net/~f-spot/+archive/f-spot-ppa). The current version there is 0.8.2. However the behavior does not change with this new version.

Perhaps renaming folders to remove the offending non-latin symbols and then manually correcting all records in f-spot's database will get it back to a (kind of) working state. I have not tested that though.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.