@ariel: but is the error message you are seeing the same problem? The error message you are quoting is different then the one in the original bug report here. And the problem the error message is trying to tell us about does not seem to be the same:
entry 0xb3b2 has unknown Exif (TIFF) type and invalid size versus 8224 entries considered invalid and Duplicate property or field node ? *t -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to exiv2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/601555 Title: Error: Directory NikonPreview, entry 0xb3b2 has invalid size 3115890614*1; skipping entry. Status in The GNU Image Manipulation Program (GIMP): Unknown Status in exiv2 package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in exiv2 package in Debian: Fix Released Bug description: Binary package hint: exiv2 When I start digikam from the command line, it bombs it with (thousands?) of messages like: [...] Warning: Directory NikonPreview, entry 0xb3b2 has unknown Exif (TIFF) type 46516; setting type size 1. Error: Directory NikonPreview, entry 0xb3b2 has invalid size 3115890614*1; skipping entry. [...] Error: Offset of directory NikonPreview, entry 0x00c4 is out of bounds: Offset = 0x01010101; truncating the entry Warning: Directory NikonPreview, entry 0x0504 has unknown Exif (TIFF) type 1798; setting type size 1. [...] According to http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam- users/2009-July/007947.html It's a problem of libexiv2 *t ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 Package: libexiv2-6 0.19-1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-21.59-generic Uname: Linux 2.6.31-21-generic x86_64 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jul 4 11:08:10 2010 ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=de_CH:de PATH=(custom, user) LANG=de_CH.utf8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: exiv2 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gimp/+bug/601555/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp