[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.8 doesn't start

[Jim Nelson]

Hi Nelson,

If you can bear it, I recommend starting from a fresh database.  We've seen
this assertion before related to UTF-8 collation; we fixed it, but it's
possible shutting down the database somehow triggered the problem.  (I'm
assuming when you first upgraded to 0.8 Shotwell started fine?)

I'm curious about why Shotwell hung the way it did, though.  Is there
anything unusual about your folder set up, i.e. located on a removable
drive, NTFS/FAT partition, symlinks?

-- Jim

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 5:38 PM, nelson
<nelsonbrown+shotwell at gmail.com<nelsonbrown%2Bshotwell at gmail.com>
> wrote:

>
> I just upgraded to Shotwell 0.8, and I have not been able to start it:
>
> $ shotwell
> **
>
> ERROR:Tag.vala:192:tag_source_collection_real_notify_container_contents_added:
> assertion failed: (is_added)
> Aborted
>
> Quite possibly this is because I did something foolish with the previous
> version.  In an attempt to have Shotwell find updates in folders that had
> already been added, I chose to add the same folder again.  Shotwell was
> unresponsive for a long time, and I eventually did a "force quit" before it
> finished importing.
>
> Any help getting unstuck would be very much appreciated.
>
> I did not have much meta-data stored in Shotwell 0.7... so starting from a
> blank slate database is a viable option.
>
> Thanks,
> Nelson
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