Ken, thanks for your bug report and helpful sleuthing. I just looked at AppDirs.vala and saw that if Shotwell is unable to create any of several directories under .shotwell then it will exit unexpectedly. Instead, in this situation we should display a dialog with an error message and then exit. I've ticketed this at http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2532 . I hope we can fix this for the upcoming 0.7.2 release.
And as for just why Shotwell can't create /home/kjernigan/.shotwell/tmp/13887 in your particular case, well, I don't know. I'd stare at the file/directory permissions very carefully. :) cheers adam On 09/07/2010 08:32 PM, Kenneth Jernigan wrote: > I owe a correction and more information. The database file ended up on the > root drive (a ReiserFS partition...). Anyhow, I found the method to call > the Shotwell with the debug commands. And here is what I receive: > > L 13887 2010-09-07 23:29:14 [MSG] main.vala:69: Verifying database ... > L 13887 2010-09-07 23:29:14 [DBG] DatabaseTables.vala:291: Database schema > version 8 created by app version 0.7.0 > L 13887 2010-09-07 23:29:15 [DBG] main.vala:181: 0.747172 seconds to > Gtk.main() > > ** ERROR **: AppDirs.vala:106: Unable to create temporary directory > /home/kjernigan/.shotwell/tmp/13887 > aborting... > Aborted > > > > The folder /home/kjernigan/.shotwell links to the folder > /usr/share/shotwell/.shotwell > > Both users are members of a group that has full read/write access to the > /usr/share/shotwell/.shotwell directory. Any ideas? > > Thanks, > Ken > > On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Kenneth Jernigan<[email protected]>wrote: > > >> I see someone created a new ticket 2530 for a similar problem. I've >> connected via Shotwell to my Picasa account and can see existing albums and >> create new albums. But when Shotwell tries to upload a picture, Shotwell >> crashes without any error message. I have been able to publish to Facebook >> and export images as well as edit photos without any problems. I am running >> Ubuntu Lucid and Shotwell 0.7.1. >> >> Just an FYI... I have, perhaps, an unusual setup (and perhaps ill-advised). >> However, I am running with the Shotwell database on a permanent NTFS >> partition. The Shotwell database folder is hard-linked to the NTFS >> partition folder. As for my photos, they are stored in ~/Pictures, which is >> a hard link to a different permanent NTFS partition. The NTFS partitions >> are from legacy dual-boot installs which I've not entirely purged. I do >> share the database and pictures directory between two users, but I always >> ensure that only one of us is running Shotwell. I doubt this setup >> attributes to the problem, but wanted to share it. >> >> Let me know if there is anything I can do to provide debug information. >> >> Ken >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
