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Shotwell 0.8.1 crashing after tagging many photos

Asked by Tyler Voskuilen

I selected several hundred photos to tag (with the option to write metadata to the files selected) and tagged them. At about 16% progress shotwell crashed and upon reopening it immediately begins trying to write the metadata, and immediately crashes again. The error given in the terminal is:

shotwell: tiffcomposite.cpp:1141: virtual uint32_t Exiv2::Internal::TiffDirectory::doWrite(Exiv2::Internal::IoWrapper&, Exiv2::ByteOrder, int32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t, uint32_t&): Assertion `sv == d' failed.
Aborted

Is there a way to fix this? Perhaps a way to disable the "write metadata to file" option first from the command line? I have Shotwell 0.8.1 in Ubuntu 10.10.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

The maverick version is 0.7.2

how did you install 0.8.1 ?

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Tyler Voskuilen (tyler-voskuilen) said : 		#2

sudo apt-get install shotwell (following the instructions at http://yorba.org/shotwell/install for 10.10).

I originally had 0.7.2 but wanted some of the new features of 0.8. I should also mention that it was working fine for several days with 0.8.1 (including tagging photos) then suddenly started this crashing.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Then you are using a 3rd party repo and not the official packages. I suggest you contact the developer.

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Jim Nelson (yorba-jim) said : 		#4

Hi Tyler,

Can you follow these instructions:

http://trac.yorba.org/wiki/Shotwell/FAQ#IfoundabuginShotwell.HowcanIreportit

And then submit a bug report on our Trac system here:

http://trac.yorba.org/

Thanks!

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Tyler Voskuilen (tyler-voskuilen) said : 		#5

It's submitted as Ticket #3104