[Shotwell] Pictures auto-import systematically hangs

[Mahen]

Thank you again, Adam.

Regarding 1) : I uploaded the movie files somewhere, but, they are 
somewhat personal. Is it possible to disclose them directly to the 
developers instead ?
2) Okay, I'll wait for Jim's recovery :)

Thanks !
Mahen

Le 25/01/2011 22:10, Adam Dingle a écrit :
> 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
>
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