Hi Josep, Just to add to what Clinton said, this might be a problem we're aware of: the Shotwell F-Spot import code is not robust to data inconsistencies in the underlying F-Spot database (see our bug ticket for this issue here: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4487. You might want to read over that bug description and see if any of the markers of this problem are similar to what you're seeing.
Lucas On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Clinton Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Josep, > > We're sorry you're encountering import problems. Looking at what you > wrote about your setup, it seems like you should have more than enough > memory available for the import to succeed, so this is likely a > Shotwell bug. (I'm assuming the message in question wasn't from the > OOM killer, which, as far as I know, doesn't display a popup). > > Can you try the following: > 1) Bring up two command shells, and in one of them, type > "top" > and press Enter. > 1) In the other shell, type > "gdb shotwell" > ...and press Enter. > 2) At the "(gdb)" prompt, type "run". > 3) Attempt the F-Spot import again, and carefully observe the shell > running 'top'. (Shotwell will most likely be using a considerable > amount of memory at this point, but shouldn't be able to use it all.) > 4) If Shotwell crashes again, note the memory usage in the 'top' > shell, and type "backtrace" in the 'gdb' shell, and email the text > that appears after this to myself and the list. > > Hopefully, assuming the machine really isn't out of memory, this will > tell us what Shotwell was doing right before it crashed, and may help > us fix the problem or provide a workaround. > > As for posting error messages in Catalan, please feel free to - the > list is read around the world, so there may be other Catalan speakers > present, and, at least in print, Catalan is similar enough to other > Romance languages that we'll be able to figure it out. > > Cheers, > -c > > On 12/14/11, Josep Cols <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi: >> >> It's a new shotwell 0.11.6-1-natty1 install on a Ubuntu 11.04. >> >> I'm importing 25.000 photos from my f-spot database. >> The first try, about 5.100 photos was imported before shotwell crash. >> After crash, a pop-up window says something about 'no memory available' >> (sorry, the original message was in catalan...) >> The second try adds about 1.500 more photos >> >> My system is a 32 bits one with PAE kernel. >> 8 Gb RAM >> 16 Gb swap and only few used (100 Mb) >> >> Any idea on how to proceed? >> >> Thanks >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
