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f-spot package

[f-spot] Crash when opening f-spot preferences window

Bug #298283 reported by Aaron Kelley
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This bug affects 4 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
F-Spot
Fix Released
Critical
f-spot (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Nominated for Intrepid by lemmy
Nominated for Jaunty by lemmy

Bug Description

Binary package hint: f-spot

I reported this over at the Gnome bug tracker. Here is my report:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=560265
(I have also pasted my original report below.)

I am posting this here because, after looking at some of the recent changes to f-spot in Ubuntu (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/f-spot), I am wondering if this crash may be caused by one of the recent updates. The preferences window worked when I first installed Ubuntu (shortly after 8.10 release), and stopped after the most recent update came down. (I cannot say for sure that the update caused the problem, but I can say that the preferences window started crashing after the update and I haven't done much else in f-spot that I think would cause a problem.

Here is my original report:

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Steps to reproduce:
1. Open f-spot.
2. Go to Edit -> Preferences.
3. Boom!

Stack trace (from terminal output):
Exception in Gtk# callback delegate
  Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to handle
the exception.
System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an
object
  at FSpot.UI.Dialog.PreferenceDialog.LoadPreference (System.String key)
[0x00000]
  at FSpot.UI.Dialog.PreferenceDialog..ctor () [0x00000]
  at FSpot.UI.Dialog.PreferenceDialog.Show () [0x00000]
  at MainWindow.HandlePreferences (System.Object sender, System.EventArgs args)
[0x00000]
  at GLib.Signal.voidObjectCallback (IntPtr handle, IntPtr data) [0x00000]
   at GLib.ExceptionManager.RaiseUnhandledException(System.Exception e, Boolean
is_terminal)
   at GLib.Signal.voidObjectCallback(IntPtr handle, IntPtr data)
   at GLib.Signal.voidObjectCallback(IntPtr , IntPtr )
   at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
   at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
   at Gtk.Application.Run()
   at Gnome.Program.Run()
   at FSpot.Driver.Main(System.String[] args)

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Just to be clear, this is f-spot 0.5.0.3 (latest update) in Ubuntu 8.10.

Let me know if I can provide any additional information.

See original description
Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley)
description: updated
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traylenator (traylenator) wrote :

Confirmed by me also.

traylenator (traylenator)
Changed in f-spot:
status: New → Confirmed
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in f-spot:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley) wrote :

Update: Found the source of the crash.

This crash occurs when f-spot tries to read the key "/apps/f-spot/screensaver/tag_id" from gconf and the key does not exist.

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Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley) wrote :

Workaround:
Execute this command in terminal:

gconftool-2 --set "/apps/f-spot/screensaver/tag_id" --type int 0

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Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley) wrote :

Correction:

This crash occurs if you remove the pre-defined "Favorites" tag and you haven't already changed the screen saver to use images with a different tag. (The above workaround still works.)

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Aaron Kelley (aaronkelley) wrote :

Fix is now applied upstream. Hopefully it'll make it into Ubuntu soonish. :-)

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in f-spot:
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug is fixed upstream now

Changed in f-spot:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
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Daniel Jour (danieloertwig) wrote :

I noticed this error today, after deleting the Favorites tag.
But (after using the command above) there is no tag set which should the screensaver use.

=> Seems as if the error isn't corrected in the repos?

(Using Jaunty, up to date)

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package f-spot - 0.6.0.0-1~ubuntu1

---------------
f-spot (0.6.0.0-1~ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * Upload to Karmic from Debian's git VCS (LP: #410520)
  * New Upstream Version 0.6.0.0
   - no longer depends on libeog
   - fighting against deprecation, on the path to gnome3
   - new viewer widget
   - new widget showing folders organisation
   - new Preference dialog
   - db and config moved to .config (or whatever is pointed by xdg config)
   - tons of bugs fixed (really) (Closes: #534566, #449293, #479176, #305306,
     #537942, #418356)
     (LP: #77133, #290564, #298283, #379373, #405005, #116796, #178303,
     #355035, #368275)
   - updated translations
  * debian/control: Set Vcs-* to point to new Git locations
  * debian/control, debian/patches/*: Switch to quilt for patches, refresh all
    patches
  * debian/rules, debian/control: Rewrite in DH7 style (Closes: #531769)
  * debian/rules: Use ltmain-as-needed, modify LDFLAGS
  * debian/patches/99_ltmain_as-needed.dpatch: Drop, now applied in rules by
    copying from debian/
  * debian/patches/debian_unlink_nunit.dpatch: Drop, upstream now handles this
    case correctly by configure checks
  * debian/patches/debian_no_dup_app_icons.dpatch: Drop, upstream no longer
    ships svg icon
  * debian/patches/debian_link_2.0_profile_cairo.dpatch: Drop, fixed in mono
  * debian/patches/debian_dont_link_libmono.patch: Drop, ltmain-as-needed
    achieves this too
  * debian/patches/f-spot-import-gphoto.dpatch,
    debian/patches/svn-r4555_fix-crash-on-icon-size-change.dpatch,
    debian/patches/svn-r4545_locales-import.dpatch,
    debian/patches/debian_use_csc.dpatch,
    ubuntu_1024x600_CDExport.cs.dpatch,
    ubuntu_raw_escape_quote.dpatch (Closes: #481124),
    svn-display-sidebar.dpatch,
    svn-no-versionellipze.patch: Drop, fixed upstream
  * debian/control: Bump versions on a load of build-deps to match upstream
    configure checks. Also drop a load more build-deps that are no longer
    needed.
  * debian/{docs,menu,manpages}: Prefix with f-spot
  * debian/rules, debian/f-spot.install: Move DLLmap installation to
    f-spot.install instead of cp in rules
  * debian/gkeyfile-sharp.dll.config: Add, DLLImport was incorrect

 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:42:29 +0100

Changed in f-spot (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in f-spot:
importance: Unknown → Critical
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