[Shotwell] crash issue

Topher topher at t1kdev.com
Tue Jun 22 11:44:00 PDT 2010


On Tue, 22 Jun 2010, Lucas Beeler wrote:

> Hi Topher,
> 
>   Shotwell uses the WebKit 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+0x7
> 61)[0xac925ad1]
> 
> IcedTea 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!

Alrighty, I removed icedtea and now when I get to the same point as before 
it segfaults.  :(  No other reporting, just

[topher at sheldon ~]$ shotwell
Segmentation fault

Are there any debug flags I could pass it on startup?

Thanks for the quick response before, I really appreciate it.  :)

Topher



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