Hi,

From this I get the following:


SHOTWELL_LOG=1 gdb shotwell 2>&1 tee shotwell.gdb
Excess command line arguments ignored. (shotwell.gdb)
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Reading symbols from /usr/bin/shotwell...done.
/home/sam/tee: No such file or directory.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /usr/bin/shotwell 
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb4372b70 (LWP 13920)]
[New Thread 0xb3b71b70 (LWP 13921)]
[New Thread 0xb3370b70 (LWP 13922)]
[New Thread 0xb2b6fb70 (LWP 13923)]
[New Thread 0xb21ffb70 (LWP 13924)]
[New Thread 0xb19b0b70 (LWP 13925)]
[Thread 0xb19b0b70 (LWP 13925) exited]
[New Thread 0xb19b0b70 (LWP 13931)]
[New Thread 0xadf11b70 (LWP 13932)]
[New Thread 0xad710b70 (LWP 13933)]
[New Thread 0xacf0fb70 (LWP 13934)]
[New Thread 0xac5ffb70 (LWP 13935)]
[New Thread 0xabdfeb70 (LWP 13936)]
[New Thread 0xab5fdb70 (LWP 13937)]
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[New Thread 0xaa5fbb70 (LWP 13939)]
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**
ERROR:DataCollection.vala:847:data_collection_internal_notify_altered: assertion failed: (data_collection_internal_contains (self, object))

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
(gdb) backtrace full
#0  0xb7fe1424 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
No symbol table info available.
##1  0xb6125941 in raise (sig=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:64
        resultvar = <value optimised out>
        pid = -1239068684
        selftid = 13917
#2  0xb6128e42 in abort () at abort.c:92
        act = {__sigaction_handler = {sa_handler = 0xbfffe134, 
            sa_sigaction = 0xbfffe134}, sa_mask = {__val = {3086924738, 
              3221217572, 3057003256, 3221217560, 3087006324, 0, 3028631584, 
              5, 0, 1, 3058924928, 3054943837, 3221217496, 3057396026, 
              3057836020, 181940224, 3221217496, 3057280134, 0, 3221217632, 
              3221217560, 3221217572, 3057836020, 3058924928, 0, 3057405785, 
              181940224, 3057044187, 3221217644, 4, 3055903680, 3055898612}}, 
          sa_flags = -1240037482, sa_restorer = 0x82c99c4 <stderr@@GLIBC_2.0>}
        sigs = {__val = {32, 0 <repeats 31 times>}}
#3  0xb63c54af in g_assertion_message (domain=0x0, 
    file=0x8293b74 "DataCollection.vala", line=847, 
    func=0x8297ce0 "data_collection_internal_notify_altered", 
    message=<value optimised out>)
    at /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.26.0/glib/gtestutils.c:1358
        lstr = "847\000s\203\331\n\373\024?\266\364\357\377\267t.\006\b\005\000\000\000@\342\377\277V\001\377\267"
---Type <return> to continue, or q <return> to quit---


Not sure if this is 100% correct as it states that it is ignoring excess command line arguments. Also I dont seem to have permission to access .cache. I am fairly new to Linux so am probably missing a setting somewhere?

Thanks,

Sam