[Shotwell] Pictures auto-import systematically hangs

[Adam Dingle]

On 01/25/2011 12:34 PM, Mahen wrote:
> Hi Adam ! Thanks for your reply ! [oops, didn't reply on the list, 
> resent]
>
> OK, I performed steps 1 to 3. The import process hanged at about 30%, 
> but apparently not on the same files. The last processed file is a 
> video file actually (mpega+mpgv; and the next file was probably one as 
> well, as there are 4 of them in the same directory). In my former 
> test, the "culprits" seemed to be regular pictures.
>
> So I started the import process again after removing those files. --> 
> it worked flawlessly !!
>
> To double check those results, I re-enabled auto-import with my 
> library minus the three .mov files. This time it hanged at 12% 
> (usually around 13%), with nothing relevant in the debug output.

OK - so it looks like there are two problems:

1. Importing hangs when it hits your mpega+mpgv files.  I've created a 
ticket for this here:

http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3125

To debug this, we'll need one of the culprit video files.  They're 
probably too large to attach to that ticket, so could you either (a) 
upload one of them to a file-sharing service and add a comment to the 
ticket with the URL, or (b) email one of them to the Shotwell team at 
shotwell at yorba.org?

2. Auto-import hangs at an indeterminate point.  I'll let Jim (the 
Shotwell tech lead and author of the auto-import code) suggest how we 
should proceed to debug that.  He's out sick today, but maybe he can 
comment when he's back at Yorba.

adam