[Shotwell] Shotwell 0.12.3 & Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop Crashing on import from SD Card!

[Scott]

Lucas,

That's exactly what i mean.  Sorry for poor terminology.

Scott.

On 09/06/12 04:54, Lucas Beeler wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> When you say "importing directly from the SD card reader" do you mean
> inserting the SD card, seeing it appear as a "Mass Storage" device in
> the Shotwell sidebar, and then selecting it from the sidebar and doing
> an import?
>
> Lucas
>
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 4:27 AM, Scott<scott_shotwell at dewie.net.au>  wrote:
>> Disregard,
>>
>> Upon forcing an import from another folder on the external, it came up with
>> a hardware or file error.  Will have to look into that...  This has
>> inadvertently found another bug though as if this is importing directly from
>> the SD card reader it just fails and crashes, auto import just stops, but if
>> using 'import from folder' it shows an error dialogue.
>>
>> Do you agree that it should show the error dialogue on all three
>> concurrences if the error is the same?
>>
>> Scott.
>>
>>
>>
>> On 08/06/12 21:19, Scott wrote:
>>> On 04/06/12 05:59, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 2 June 2012 06:03, Scott<scott_shotwell at dewie.net.au>    wrote:
>>>>> Hi there,
>>>>>
>>>>> My fairly recently upgraded Ubuntu Desktop has developed a serious bug
>>>>> that
>>>>> causes shotwell to crash on import.  I was burnt pretty bad by the
>>>>> compiz/unity/lightdm bugs that plagued so many others, so i'm not sure
>>>>> if
>>>>> that has anything to do with it, but i have found that 12.04 overall is
>>>>> far
>>>>> less stable than 11.10 was.
>>>>>
>>>>> But basically what i am doing is inserting the SD card into the internal
>>>>> reader, and when i hit the import all button after it tries to make the
>>>>> previews, it will take forever to prepare to import, import on average
>>>>> around 10 photo's and then crash with the 'Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has
>>>>> experienced an internal error' dialogue.  I don't know where those go -
>>>>> but
>>>>> i have been sending those off each time i get one.
>>>> Rather than importing into Shotwell try using the Ubuntu file manager
>>>> (nautilus) to copy a couple of dozen pictures from the SD card to a
>>>> folder on disk.  If that also fails then it is not a Shotwell specific
>>>> problem.  In the past I have had similar problems with SD card
>>>> readers.  In my case the problem was worked around by plugging the
>>>> camera into PC and then Shotwell worked perfectly.
>>>>
>>>> Colin
>>> Sorry for delayed response, but we have been busy here with the arrival of
>>> our fourth child, and as i am a student again and end of semester is coming
>>> around i am flat out with assignments, so this got put on the backburner a
>>> little.
>>>
>>> I have tried copying directly from SD card to the Shotwell library, and
>>> then allowing shotwell to auto-import.  I dumped an entire 2gb SD card onto
>>> the external that my library is on - into three different folders without
>>> failure or anything greying out.
>>>
>>> I then forced Shotwell to auto import the way i normally would (by
>>> clicking on the SD card it checks what has been imported because of the hide
>>> already imported option is checked).  Whilst that took a while, it seemed to
>>> take.  With a 44,000+ photo and 1000+ video collection spanning 30 years, an
>>> auto-import takes a while to register that something is missing.
>>>
>>> So i think i may have narrowed it down to a Shotwell problem, as the card
>>> reader and nautilus seem to talk to each other, the external that has my
>>> main photo collection has coorect permissions (it is msdos fat32 fs so there
>>> aint much you can do with it), 231gb free and SMART is showing that it is
>>> healthy.  The only thing i can think of is that nautilus is a little
>>> sluggish to give me a folder tree, so maybe that has an effect on things?
>>>
>>> I would have my main library on my laptop, but at 370gb it is too big for
>>> the disk that is in the drive and any tool i have found refuses to copy the
>>> recovery sector of the disk as there is a bad sector in it and nothing will
>>> touch it.  But that is a different story, and i will deal with that when it
>>> comes to it.  I dont have time to at the moment anyway :)
>>>
>>> So, to the main issue - where to next?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Scott.
>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure how to extract logs, but if someone is willing to teach me,
>>>>> i
>>>>> am willing to learn to try and fix this rather annoying bug.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oh - and i havent tried importing from the camera or copying into the
>>>>> correct folders yet, but will do that in the next few days when i have
>>>>> time
>>>>> to fiddle some more.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Scott.
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