Hi all - a progress update...
I'm happy to say that it was importing while updating the library, but
nothing was telling me what it was doing during this time. Apparently
according to the logs it was skipping a directory with around 8k files
in it which doesnt exist as far as i know. Does this line in the log
mean anything to anyone?
L 3327 2012-11-29 14:59:51 [CRT] Directory NikonPreview with 8224
entries considered invalid; not read.
This particular one there is over 2000 log entries in 2 minutes. Could
explain the high CPU usage...
In the previous log file (while i was having the initial
unresponsiveness of the first e-mail) it was this one:
L 3433 2012-11-27 01:48:23 [CRT] Directory Panasonic with 14848 entries
considered invalid; not read.
I know my own library structure well and I certainly dont have any
directories Panasonic or NikonPreview, although I have once owned a
Panasonic and my current camera is a Nikon DSLR, so could this be to do
with reading the EXIF or something?
Either way, this tends to stall the import process for a long, long
time. In the case of the auto-import it was well over an hour of
inactivity, in the ase of this current import in progress now it is more
like 5-10 minutes. Either way, it is a long time to wait for an
unresponsive program to respond...
Thanks for the initial help,
Scott.
On Tue 27 Nov 2012 01:01:43 EST, Scott wrote:
Sorry, Rookie error. moved contents, but not directories themselves.
However the problem still stands. The log has been silent, as has CPU
usage and disk stall for a full 20 minutes, plus progress bar has
stalled, and absolutely no thumbnails are showing up now. As it is now
1am here i am going to go to bed, and leave this running overnight
(again) to test the theory. I will post results in the morning (my time).
Scott.
On Tue 27 Nov 2012 00:19:24 EST, Scott wrote:
Joe,
Thanks for the reply, i had a look at the log. The last things i get
before it starts chewing through CPU (jumps to about 60-90% of a Core2
2.0Ghz from an avg of around 10%) are these lines:
L 22473 2012-11-26 23:52:32 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-07-10/.rawstudio
L 22473 2012-11-26 23:52:40 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-08-14/.rawstudio
L 22473 2012-11-26 23:52:42 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-06-18/.rawstudio
L 22473 2012-11-26 23:52:47 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-07-09/.rawstudio
Reproducable every time, and the same four directories cause the
problems... This also causes the process to need to be killed. These
directories have been moved, and i am still getting the same results:
L 22949 2012-11-27 00:12:52 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-08-14/.rawstudio
L 22949 2012-11-27 00:12:53 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-06-18/.rawstudio
L 22949 2012-11-27 00:12:57 [WRN] DirectoryMonitor.vala:912: Skipping
hidden file/directory
/media/Buffalo_1TB/Shotwell_Library/2011/2011-07-09/.rawstudio
The CPU spikes, disk read stalls and process needs to be killed. I
can watch this happening in real time with the log open and system
load indicator showing CPU usage, disk write and memory at 500ms
intervals.
Scott.
On Mon 26 Nov 2012 23:49:33 EST, Joseph Bylund wrote:
Scott,
It's likely it's importing and the progress bar is hung (that's what I
saw). Can you do "export SHOTWELL_LOG=1" and watch
~/.cache/shotwell/shotwell.log during import? If you're continually
seeing it talk about new photos then it's probably not hung (but the
bar may be).
To share your backtrace you can upload to dropbox and get a link or
email shotwell@yorba.
-Joe
On 11/26/2012 06:50 AM, Scott wrote:
Hi all,
My 0.13.1 install from Yorba PPA running on Ubuntu 12.04LTS seems to
hang on import of anything. What will happen is it will try to get
the photo's off the SD Card, it will get some of the thumbnails, but
will freeze half way through. The progress bar will stop moving and
no more thumbnails will appear. Whats more, when i try to exit, the
process will not actually quit, until i use either top or
gnome-system-monitor to kill it manually. I have done a full
backport, but as i have absolutely no idea what i am looking at, i
cant tell if it is helpful or not. I also believe that this list
doesnt allow attachments, is there somewhere i could e-mil them to?
Is anyone else experiencing this?
On a possibly unrelated note, the library is on an external USB, with
the database in my home directory. The problem is that i
accidentally opened shotwell the other day not knowing that the
external hdd had not been mounted correctly, and as a result the
entire library has now been shown to be missing, and no matter how
long I wait, the library will not update itself. Is there a way to
force shotwell to attempt to locate these? Or could there be in a
future release? Normally, a workaround i find is to re-import (this
does happen occasionally if i accidentally insert the SD card before
the hdd), but with all imports hanging i cannot get my photos to
refresh themselves...
Thanks,
Scott.
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