[Shotwell] crash issue

[Lucas Beeler]

Hi Topher,

  Shotwell uses the WebKit <http://webkit.org/> framework to create
a programmatically-controlled browser environment when it runs the login
interactions for Facebook and Flickr. Put more simply, when you get ready to
sign in to Facebook or Flickr, Shotwell effectively runs a mini web browser
to show you the login pages. Just as full-size web browsers can have plugins
(to display Flash videos or Java applets, for example), so can WebKit.
Apparently, one of the WebKit plugins installed on your system is the
IcedTea runtime plugin. You can see that Shotwell failed attempting to load
this plugin by the presence of this line in the stack trace you provided:

>
/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so(NP_Initialize+0x761)[0xac925ad1]

IcedTea <http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/Main_Page> is a Red Hat project
that aims to produce a completely free Java VM & JDK. Clearly, it has
problems with WebKit on your system. I'd recommend trying the following
steps to fix the problem:


   1. if you don't need Java runtime support, remove IcedTea completely.
   2. Upgrade IcedTea to the latest version; this may mean building and
   installing it from source.
   3. Replace IcedTea with the genuine Sun JDK & VM

Thanks for your interest in Shotwell!

Take care,
Lucas