Why I was sure I wasn't using an Aurora theme... switching to another theme fixed the issue.
Kind Regards Mike 2011/2/19 Mike Massonnet <[email protected]>: > Hello, > > I have seen a few posts on this list about Shotwell 0.8.1 not > starting, but I haven't found anything similar to what I'm facing. > > While Shotwell does start, it consumes more and more memory until it > reaches a point where new memory can't be allocated. I have run strace > on it, and in fact it shows the following result: > > mmap2(NULL, 262144, ...) = 0xae1a2000 > mmap2(NULL, 520192, ...) = 0xae123000 > mmap2(NULL, 1036288, ...) = 0xae026000 > mmap2(NULL, 2068480, ...) = 0xade2d000 > mmap2(NULL, 4132864, ...) = 0xada3c000 > mmap2(NULL, 8261632, ...) = 0xad25b000 > mmap2(NULL, 16519168, ...) = 0xac29a000 > mmap2(NULL, 33034240, ...) = 0xaa319000 > mmap2(NULL, 66064384, ...) = 0xa6418000 > mmap2(NULL, 132124672, ...) = 0x9e617000 > mmap2(NULL, 264245248, ...) = 0x8ea16000 > mmap2(NULL, 528486400, ...) = 0x6f215000 > mmap2(NULL, 1056968704, ...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > brk(0x494de000) = 0xa4de000 > mmap2(NULL, 1057099776, ...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > mmap2(NULL, 1056968704, ...) = -1 ENOMEM (Cannot allocate memory) > > We can actually see that the allocated size is always doubled. > > Shotwell will keep running and consuming 100% CPU of one core (I'm > glade to have two cores), and use almost all the RAM, but nothing > seems to be progressing, no files seem to be read or written. > > I have tried to use an empty data directory, but it ends the same. The > shotwell.log file contains only the following two lines: > > L 14195 2011-02-19 10:16:52 [MSG] main.vala:61: Verifying database ... > L 14195 2011-02-19 10:16:53 [MSG] VideoSupport.vala:373: interpreter > state cookie not found; assuming all video thumbnails are out of date > > Given this is the latest stable version, I'm reporting it here for now ;) > > Kind Regards > -- > Mike > PS: my shotwell 0.6.1 won't start because it doesn't find libexiv2 > anymore, and rebuilding it needs an older version of Vala, I have > installed shotwell 0.8.1 from the ArchLinux package > PPS: I'm the one who bugged you about this on twitter under @m8t > -- Mike _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
