Comment 13 for bug 676949

the interesting part is that gexiv2 0.2.1 in maverick works just fine

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 12:05 AM, kvdveer <email address hidden> wrote:

> I have found a workaround. I've downgraded libgexiv2-0 to the maverick
> version (0.2.0-0ubuntu2). This solves problems for both callstacks
> mentioned above (gexiv2_metadata_get_exif_tag_rational and
> gexiv2_metadata_get_orientation).
>
> --
> shotwell crashes on importing images
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/676949
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> in ubuntu.
>
> Status in gexiv2: Confirmed
> Status in “exiv2” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “gexiv2” package in Ubuntu: New
> Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: shotwell
>
> On Natty the gexiv2-package 0.2.1-1ubuntu1 has broken shotwell, it crashes
> on importing pictures. Reverting to maverick's 0.2.0-0ubuntu2 version of
> gexiv2 fixes the problem. I guess shotwell would need a rebuild?
>
> Here's the gdb output:
>
> Starting program: /usr/bin/shotwell
> [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe65fc710 (LWP 26828)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe5dfb710 (LWP 26829)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe55fa710 (LWP 26830)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe1b9f710 (LWP 26831)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe1061710 (LWP 26832)]
> [New Thread 0x7fffe0860710 (LWP 26833)]
> [Thread 0x7fffe1b9f710 (LWP 26831) exited]
> [Thread 0x7fffe1061710 (LWP 26832) exited]
>
> Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
> 0x00007ffff76dc890 in gexiv2_metadata_get_orientation () from
> /usr/lib/libgexiv2.so.0
> (gdb) quit
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
> Package: shotwell 0.7.2-0ubuntu2
> Uname: Linux 2.6.37-rc2-custom x86_64
> NonfreeKernelModules: wl
> Architecture: amd64
> Date: Thu Nov 18 12:43:53 2010
> InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100113)
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=de_AT:de:de_DE:de_CH:de_LU:de_LI:de_BE:en
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=de_AT.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: shotwell
>
>
>