Re: [Shotwell] Shotwell 0.25.0 - program terminated with signal sigsev

[Jens Georg <mail jensge org>]

Am 2016-11-06 17:44, schrieb Hoffmann, Jobst:
> Hi Jens,
>
> Am Freitag, den 28.10.2016, 12:07 +0200 schrieb Jens Georg:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I switch over to Fedora 25 Beta and installed shotwell from git.
> > > Compiling worked after installing several additional packages.
> >
> > If there 's some package missing from the list at 
> > https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell/BuildingAndInstalling (I can
> > spot 
> > gcr-3) please feel free to update the page (or send me the list so I
> > can 
> > update it later).
> >
> > >
> > > Whenever I start the program, it crashes. So I followed the advice
> > > how
> > > to save information about the crash:
> > >
> > > SHOTWELL_LOG=1 gdb shotwell 2>&1 | tee shotwell.gdb
> > >
> > > I attach the log file and I hope it helps to the error
> >
> > That seems to be an issue in gst-libav/libav/ffmpeg while trying to 
> > parse a media file. Not much shotwell can do about this, though
> > probably 
> > should think about splitting this off into an process similar to the 
> > thumbnailing so a crashing extract doesn't crash the main process.
> >
> > Can you file a ticket against GStreamer/libav, if possible with the 
> > video causing this? The video should be mentioned in 
> > ~/.cache/shotwell/shotwell.log
>
> I'm sorry, but I can't find any name in the log file. I attach the
> current log, because I find several things, which could be the source 
> of
> the errors:
>
> Line  7 of the log: Unable to load...
>                           This file exists and it is readable!

You can ignore that, the plugin loader is rather stupid and tries to 
load the libtool file.

> Line 18 of the log: Failed to create index...

That's not so good but should at max result in a dialog shown to you.

> Line 19 of the log: could not load application icon...
>                           This shouldn't be a problem, does such an
>                           icon exist at all?

Should, but probably doesn't matter.

> Line 23 of the log: could not delete mimics
>                           What is that for?

Not the faintest idea.

> I should mention that most of my pictures reside on a NAS, I use NFS
> with an automounter to access the files. 
>
> To see the effect of NFS, I tried to reduce the amount of pictures,
> moved a lot of pictures aside, omitted the NFS-files, and built a new
> photo.db; that worked fine.
>
> After that I added one directory from the NAS and that worked until
> about 2000 pictures were in the library.
>
> I hope you can give me some advices how to go on.

Is it always crashing in the video file discovery?

> By the way: can I prevent shotwell from generating .jpeg's from .raw's?
> My standard workflow is
> 1) viewing the .jpeg's delivered from the camera
> 2) using a specialized .raw developing program like darktable.

You probably might not want to hear that, but: There's a ticket open for 
that :)