Thanks, Pascal. I just checked installed the SMART tools, and it indeed
looks like my drive's death is imminent. I'll drop in a new drive and try
again.
I was NOT using the version of darktable from the PPA - I'll make sure to
upgrade before I try again.
Clark
On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Pascal de Bruijn <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Clark Case <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I have a newly installed Ubunty 12.10 system with a newly installed copy
> of
> > Darktable.
>
> Using my Darktable-Release-Plus PPA I hope? version 1.1.4 I guess?
> Keep in mind that the Ubuntu repositories have a really outdated
> version of Darktable.
>
> > I tried importing a library of images (45k in number) and after a
> > minute or two, Darktable crashed, wouldn't restart, and (somehow) made my
> > file system read only.
>
> Your filesystem going read-only is unlikely to be really darktable's
> fault... it means that likely something else is going on (too)...
>
> In cases where we've had similar reports, it often turned out that
> users had their systems overclocked or poorly cooled or something
> along those lines.
>
> > I did a hard restart of my machine (it hung when attempting to soft
> restart)
> > and deleted ~/.config/darktable and ~/cache/darktable. However, I am
> > hesitant to try the import again.
>
> Well, first make sure your hardware is fine... Let your machine run
> memtest for a couple of hours... Check your harddisks SMART status...
> etc etc...
>
> Make sure to use Darktable at it's default settings, when trying to
> troubleshoot any problem. (rm -Rf ~/.config/darktable should have made
> sure of that). Also keep in mind that on a 32bit machine Darktable is
> rather memory contrained, so going 64bit is highly recommended.
>
> Then import your library in smaller batches... Possibly a thousand at
> a time... If it still fails, split up the first thousand into say 10
> batch of a hunderd images, and so on, until you find the problematic
> image (if that's the case)...
>
> Another thing that would be nice for us to know, what does your image
> library consist of? Just RAW files (from which camera)? Directly
> camera generated JPEGs? Edited JPEGs? other files?
>
> Also, if you get another crash/filesystem read only, saving your
> machine's full 'dmesg' maybe instrumental in troubleshooting your
> (hardware) problem.
>
> > Anyone have a theory on what went wrong? Was I trying to import too much
> at
> > once?
>
> Importing 45k images at once is rather atypical, certainly not
> something tested every day.... But in theory it should work.
>
> Practically, I seldomly import more than 1k images at a time. This
> isn't a conscience choice, it's just a result of how I work...
>
> Regards,
> Pascal de Bruijn
>
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