Re: serious problem with upgrade to ubuntu 9.10q

[Frank de Lange <f-spot-f unternet org>]

On 11/25/2009 09:58 PM, Mary Strimel wrote:
> hi, yes, thanks, I had seen that bug report, and I commented on one of
> its "duplicates" as well.. I have never used any colons in any of my
> filenames.  However some of my directories where photos were stored
> had blank spaces in them ... maybe that's the problem?   i will go
> back and mention that in my comment.

I just had a look at your photos.db with a slightly modified version of 
f-spot. It does seem to choke on a directory with a colon in the name:

...
...
AppendValues ( Gtk.TreeIter, 2003%20Kitchen%20Before)
AppendValues ( Gtk.TreeIter, Michigan)
AppendValues ( Gtk.TreeIter, Volume%202)
AppendValues ( Gtk.TreeIter, Volume%203)
AppendValues ( Gtk.TreeIter, 2005-02-12--14:13:46)
[Warn  00:53:34.914] Caught an exception - URI scheme must start with a 
letter and must consist of one of alphabet, digits, '+', '-' or '.' 
character. (in `System')

Notice the time in the directory name...

This means you are hit by this bug:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559093

You can either wait for a patch (I'll see if I can hack up one) or 
change the directory names to get rid of the colons. The problem with 
the latter solution is that as soon as you use gthumb-importer or 
something similar which makes directories with colons in the name you'll 
be hit again...

If you want you (or I if you don't know sqlite) can convert the database 
so it does not contain the colons. You will have to change the directory 
name(s) involved.

Cheers//Frank