openshot crashed with TypeError in __init__(): Gtk.FileChooser.set_current_folder() argument 1 must be string, not None

[Henrik Hoff]

lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

apt-cache policy openshot
openshot:
Installed: 1.4.0-1

I was moving a SVG on one of the tracks when Openshot crashed.

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: openshot 1.4.0-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.19-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Oct 12 23:26:51 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/openshot
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.7
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/python /usr/bin/openshot
PythonArgs: ['/usr/bin/openshot']
SourcePackage: openshot
Title: openshot crashed with TypeError in __init__(): Gtk.FileChooser.set_current_folder() argument 1 must be string, not None
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Sean Gugler (sean-gugler)]

Bug triggered by my clicking the "Import File" button multiple times. It seemed to have no effect, but was actually spinning up the CDROM, from which I'd booted ubuntu-studio live. Crash occured when spin-up reached full speed.

[Nicholas Skaggs (nskaggs)]

Happened to me in quantal, just now.

[Bugsbane (bugsbane)]

For me it was the same as Sean Gugler. I clicked "Import". Nothing happened. Like a child with an elevator button, I clicked it a bunch more times and it crashed.

[Olivier Girard (eolinwen)]

Hi,
It looks more a bug of GTK 2/3 on an LiveCD that Openshot himself even I find the version of OS and MLT pretty old.
We are using the 1.4.2 (stable) and 1.4.3 (development) with MLT in 0.8.1.
Here you are using the 1.4.0 and 0.7.4 (for MLT).