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Title:
Variety segfaults on libexiv/std::_Rb_tree on autostart, but not when
started manually
To manage
To everyone experiencing this:
Do you still experience it with Variety and your OS's current versions?
If you increase the autostart delay in Variety's autostart desktop entry
(~/.config/autostart/variety.desktop) from 20 seconds to something
larger (i.e. allow system to settle completely before
Oh, I misread #1593254. Never mind then
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Title:
Variety segfaults on libexiv/std::_Rb_tree on autostart, but not when
started manually
To
We can't drop our use of EXIF, it's essential - Variety uses EXIF
metadata inside the images to store info about where the image is
downloaded from, what the source URL and Author is, etc. EXIF is
definitely the most appropriate place for this, as it "moves" along with
the image when a user starts
Hi everyone,
A cursory glance of the backtrace logs points to libexiv2 being the
issue. Unfortunately, exiv2's maintainer seems overwhelmed or unwilling
to harden the library, and thus it has many documented issues handling
malformed data. Nevertheless, many programs depend on it either directly
