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

["Hoffmann, Jobst" <J Hoffmann fh-aachen de>]

Am Dienstag, den 08.11.2016, 17:38 +0100 schrieb Jens Georg:
> 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?

After updating of some gstreamer packages and making the contents of the
~/Video directory invisible (by gzipping - is this the right way?) the
crashs disappeared. I think the issue can be marked as solved.

> > 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 :)
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