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 state cookie not found; assuming all video thumbnails are out of date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
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