Re: F-spot crashes when importing a photo (test in f-spot 0.4?)

[Roland Geider <masterOfTheWeb geider net>]

Stani's Python Editor wrote:
> Hi,
> Converting a friend from Windows to Ubuntu, one of the selling points of
> gnome is f-spot. Unfortunately f-spot seems to crash when she tried to
> import a photo. She send me the photo and I can confirm it. I tried
> running f-spot in debugging mode and paste the traceback below (and
> included exif data). The photo opens fine in any other image viewer.
> When I save a copy in Gimp with another name, there is no problem to
> import the copy.
> I am using f-spot 0.3.5 on Ubuntu Feisty. I can send the photo to
> anyone, but did not want to send it to this list as the size is 960kb. I
> tried to build the new f-spot 0.4 but had to abandon because of unmet
> dependencies on Feisty. Right now I don't have a spare machine or enough
> harddisk free to test it in Ubuntu Gutsy. My question is if someone
> could test this photo in f-spot 0.4 to see if it works there. If it
> works in 0.4, I think my friend can wait till Gutsy, in the hope
> f-spot-0.4 will be included there. (Can anyone confirm this?) If 0.4
> also crashes on it, is any developer interested to debug what is wrong?
> Thanks in advance!
> Stani


I asked Dani to send me that picture and tried to import it into F-spot 
0.4 (Ubuntu Feisty) but it also crashed (I tried this several times). 
After re-saving it, there were no problems.


Roland