[Shotwell] Pictures auto-import systematically hangs

[Adam Dingle]

Mahendra,

On 01/21/2011 07:02 AM, Mahendra Tallur wrote:
> Hi everyone !
>
> First congrats to the developers for this very nice piece of software 
> ! I love fast apps with a minimalistic GUI.

Glad you like it!

>
> I'm currently using : Ubuntu 10.10 AMD64 + Shotwell 0.8.1 from the 
> official PPA
>
> I never used this kind of app before because I prefer to copy and 
> organize pictures by myself using regular folders. I tried Shotwell as 
> it can now "watch" a regular directory as media players usually do and 
> store tags in the files themselves !
>
> I have a problem though : the auto-import process always hangs at 
> around 13%. The GUI doesn't hang but it just never completes the 
> auto-import. I have about 11 000 files which weigh about 24 GB. I 
> tried to enable the debug mode and noticed in shotwell.log that the 
> auto-import always stopped on a the picture file. So I removed it. The 
> following time, it stopped on another file, made with a different camera.
>
> What can I do to help fix this issue ? IMHO, there's no relevant issue 
> in the debug log I obtained with the SHOTWELL_LOG=1 env variable.

As a next debugging step, I'd suggest that you import your entire 
library manually (i.e. not using auto-import) so we can see whether that 
works or hangs.  You can do that like this:

1. Using gconf-editor, find the value 
/apps/shotwell/preferences/files/auto_import and set it to false.  This 
is equivalent to clearing the auto-import option in the Shotwell 
preferences.

2. Remove your Shotwell library ~/.shotwell, then start Shotwell.  You 
will have an empty library and Shotwell will not auto-import anything.

3. Drag your Pictures directory into Shotwell.

When you do this, does Shotwell successfully import all your photos?

If this succeeds, you can then try this:

4. Go to the Preferences dialog and enable the auto-import option.

Once you've done that, does Shotwell now hang, or does everything seem 
to be OK?

adam