Problem loading previous F-Spot database

["Ben Parsons" <ben parsons web googlemail com>]

Hi, and apologies that my first post to this list is a request for help...

I just upgraded to Ubuntu Edgy, from Dapper.

All was well, but now I can no longer load f-spot with my old
database. The program runs fine if I rename photos.db something else
and let it make it's own new db.

The errors produced are as follows:
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dyefade alison:~$ f-spot
GTK Accessibility Module initialized
Bonobo accessibility support initialized
Starting new FSpot server
XXXXX
Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteSyntaxException: file is encrypted or is
not a database
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.GetNextStatement (IntPtr
pzStart, System.IntPtr pzTail, System.IntPtr pStmt) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader
(CommandBehavior behavior, Boolean want_results, System.Int32
rows_affected) [0x00000]
 at Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteCommand.ExecuteNonQuery () [0x00000]
 at MetaStore.CreateTable () [0x00000]
 at MetaStore..ctor (Mono.Data.SqliteClient.SqliteConnection
connection, Boolean is_new) [0x00000]
 at Db.Init (System.String path, Boolean create_if_missing) [0x00000]
 at FSpot.Core..ctor () [0x00000]
 at FSpot.Driver.Main (System.String[] args) [0x00000]
XXXXX
Starting new FSpot server
Starting new FSpot server
Starting new FSpot server

=================================================================
Got a SIGSEGV while executing native code. This usually indicates
a fatal error in the mono runtime or one of the native libraries
used by your application.
=================================================================

Stacktrace:

 at (wrapper managed-to-native)
System.Threading.Monitor.Monitor_try_enter (object,int) <0x00004>
 at (wrapper managed-to-native)
System.Threading.Monitor.Monitor_try_enter (object,int) <0xffffffff>
 at System.Threading.Monitor.Enter (object) <0x00013>
 at (wrapper synchronized) DBus.Service.remove_SignalCalled
(DBus.Service/SignalCalledHandler) <0xffffffff>
 at FSpot.Core.Proxy.Finalize () <0x00015>
 at (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object.runtime_invoke_void
(object,intptr,intptr,intptr) <0xffffffff>

Native stacktrace:

       mono(mono_handle_native_sigsegv+0xde) [0x815644e]
       mono [0x8122c88]
       [0xffffe440]
       mono [0x80c3ab3]
       [0xb73cec11]
       [0xb73ceb9c]
       [0xb4f0ca94]
       [0xb4f0ca66]
       [0xb4f0c9e1]
       mono [0x80af103]
       mono [0x81158f1]
       mono [0x80af237]
       mono [0x80c6444]
       mono [0x810984e]
       mono [0x811fbf5]
       /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 [0xb7ebc504]
       /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__clone+0x5e) [0xb7e2a51e]
Aborted (core dumped)
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I am very concerned by: "file is encrypted or is not a database"!!?! I
had 1000's of photos tagged, I'd be gutted if this is lost. I
understand that photos.db is a regular SQLite file though, is there
any way I can check it's validity outside of f-spot?

Also, I'm using version 2.1, I know this is very outdated, but it's
what installed by default, and I'm alarmed that I'm having problems.

If any more info is required please ask and I will provide.

Thanks in advance for any replies!!!

Ben.

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