segmentation fault while importing photos from F-Spot

[Alex Peters]

Shotwell segfaulted while trying to import a large F-Spot photo collection (possibly including many duplicates, as this was the third attempt) into a large existing Shotwell collection.

Shotwell was invoked in this manner:

$ SHOTWELL_LOG=1 shotwell
Segmentation fault

The log generated by Shotwell was gzipped and is attached. Sadly, the log doesn't seem to provide any useful information related to the segfault.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified: usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-15.26-generic 3.0.13
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-15-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Feb 12 10:06:40 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2012-02-04 (7 days ago)

[Bruno Girin (brunogirin)]

Alex,

There are currently two known problems with the F-Spot import:
* Dealing with issues in the F-Spot database itself: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4487
* A memory usage issue (although this seems to affect all imports, not jut F-Spot): http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4498

The first one is being resolved as part of a re-factoring of the F-Spot import code. A patch has been provided and I'm hoping that it will make its way to trunk in the next few days.

The second one is being looked at too. To validate whether you are hitting the memory issue, can you check how much memory Shotwell uses when doing the import please? You should be able to do that using the system monitor.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[marco.pallotta (marco-pallotta)]

In Ubuntu 12.04 x86_64 (real host) all seems to work well whereas in x86 version (tested inside VirtualBox) the bug happened.