On 04/06/12 05:59, Colin Law wrote:
On 2 June 2012 06:03, Scott<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi there,
My fairly recently upgraded Ubuntu Desktop has developed a serious bug that
causes shotwell to crash on import. I was burnt pretty bad by the
compiz/unity/lightdm bugs that plagued so many others, so i'm not sure if
that has anything to do with it, but i have found that 12.04 overall is far
less stable than 11.10 was.
But basically what i am doing is inserting the SD card into the internal
reader, and when i hit the import all button after it tries to make the
previews, it will take forever to prepare to import, import on average
around 10 photo's and then crash with the 'Sorry, Ubuntu 12.04 has
experienced an internal error' dialogue. I don't know where those go - but
i have been sending those off each time i get one.
Rather than importing into Shotwell try using the Ubuntu file manager
(nautilus) to copy a couple of dozen pictures from the SD card to a
folder on disk. If that also fails then it is not a Shotwell specific
problem. In the past I have had similar problems with SD card
readers. In my case the problem was worked around by plugging the
camera into PC and then Shotwell worked perfectly.
Colin
Sorry for delayed response, but we have been busy here with the arrival
of our fourth child, and as i am a student again and end of semester is
coming around i am flat out with assignments, so this got put on the
backburner a little.
I have tried copying directly from SD card to the Shotwell library, and
then allowing shotwell to auto-import. I dumped an entire 2gb SD card
onto the external that my library is on - into three different folders
without failure or anything greying out.
I then forced Shotwell to auto import the way i normally would (by
clicking on the SD card it checks what has been imported because of the
hide already imported option is checked). Whilst that took a while, it
seemed to take. With a 44,000+ photo and 1000+ video collection
spanning 30 years, an auto-import takes a while to register that
something is missing.
So i think i may have narrowed it down to a Shotwell problem, as the
card reader and nautilus seem to talk to each other, the external that
has my main photo collection has coorect permissions (it is msdos fat32
fs so there aint much you can do with it), 231gb free and SMART is
showing that it is healthy. The only thing i can think of is that
nautilus is a little sluggish to give me a folder tree, so maybe that
has an effect on things?
I would have my main library on my laptop, but at 370gb it is too big
for the disk that is in the drive and any tool i have found refuses to
copy the recovery sector of the disk as there is a bad sector in it and
nothing will touch it. But that is a different story, and i will deal
with that when it comes to it. I dont have time to at the moment anyway :)
So, to the main issue - where to next?
Thanks,
Scott.
I'm not sure how to extract logs, but if someone is willing to teach me, i
am willing to learn to try and fix this rather annoying bug.
Oh - and i havent tried importing from the camera or copying into the
correct folders yet, but will do that in the next few days when i have time
to fiddle some more.
Thanks,
Scott.
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