gthumb randomly fails to view certain pictures in a directory

[Tpugliese]

When viewing a directory pictures, gthumb will randomly show a blank window instead of the image. Reloading the image or refreshing it does not resolve the issue. I say random because if I close gthumb and reopen it, the picture that failed to load previously will be viewable this time. If I keep viewing images, the failure will happen again on another image. I would say about 1 in 10 pictures fail to load. The typical directory has 100-200 jpg files about 2-3MB in size that have been imported from a digital camera.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gthumb 3:3.0.2-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-17.27-generic 3.8.6
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-17-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Apr 9 21:07:54 2013
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gthumb
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-01-09 (1186 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gthumb
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-09 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Tpugliese (thomas-pugliese)]

Two additional bits of information that might be useful.

1. This problem still exists in 13.10
2. Switching to another image and then back again can actually allow the failed image to display correctly. If I switch to an adjacent image in the file list, it will not work but if I switch to an image that is 5 or 6 or more entries away, it will usually display the original image when I select it again. This makes me think it has something to do with the caching and that selecting an entry far enough away will clear the blank image from the cache and cause it to be rendered again.

[Jackson Doak (noskcaj)]

Could you please file this bug upsteam (in the gnome bugzilla)? It's far more likely to get fixed then.