I copied off all the files to a windows computer and had the Windows Picasa scan them, Everything worked fine.
I hooked the HD up to another sysem and fsck it, no problems there either. On Jul 21, 5:21 pm, leiz <[email protected]> wrote: > If you are running Picasa as a normal user, which I presume you're > doing, Picasa cannot by itself trigger a reboot/shutdown because > normal users do not have the privilege to do that. Most likely it's > because Picasa is triggering a bug in either the Linux kernel or in > your hardware. > > Have you tried to run fsck and make sure your file system doesn't have > any errors? If you have another computer, does Picasa trigger the same > problem on that computer with the same problematic files? > > On Jul 21, 10:16 am, jonb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I don't think its related to the general power settings. The laptop > > has had no other issues with rebooting at random. Also, once picases > > has finally scanned the folders, it will stay open and the laptop will > > stay on. It seems to be related to the actual scanning of the files, > > in particular to how Picasa is reacting to files it can't or doesn't > > want to read. > > > On Jul 21, 11:37 am, hobie20dude <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Any chance this is unrelated to Picassa and just the power settings of > > > the laptop shutting down? I had to temporarily disable the auto- > > > suspend on my computer for a long Picassa "upload to web albums" to > > > finish. > > > > Yes, I have ghetto DSL;) > > > > On Jul 20, 7:27 am, jonb <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hey all, got a random question. > > > > > I run Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) on my laptop. I do a lot of photography, > > > > and as a result I have about 30K pictures on my drive. I had some > > > > issues with F-spot so I wanted to try picasa since I had used it on my > > > > Windows box at work. > > > > > I installed Picasa 2.7 (I think, it was the stable release). After > > > > install I let it run and scan my photo directory. Every so often, my > > > > computer would shutdown. When I start it back up and re-run Picasa, I > > > > would get a warning that 'Picasa has trouble with file ABC.jpg, would > > > > you like to hide it on the disk?" I usually went ahead and 'hid' the > > > > file and let Picasa star scanning again. This happened for about 15 > > > > files or so. On a side note, I did check these files, and they are > > > > valid files that will open with several different image viewers. > > > > > When doing some organization work on the hard drive, I moved a bunch > > > > of folders around, and Picasa had to rescan the drive. I had the same > > > > issue, wherein Picasas would shutdown the computer. > > > > > At this point I was wondering if this was an error in my install, so I > > > > went ahead and downloaded/installed the Picasa 3 beta. I ran into the > > > > same problem with Picasa shutting down my computer whenever it finds a > > > > file it doesn't particularly like. > > > > > After looking around online, I can't seem to find anyone who had this > > > > same issue, only some people whose computers would lock up, not turn > > > > off, when using Picasa. > > > > > So... > > > > > 1) Has anyone else experienced this? > > > > 2) If so, has anyone found a solution, or at least a cause for why > > > > Picasa is shutting down the system? > > > > 3) Does anyone have any ideas/comments on what I can try to correct > > > > this error? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Labs-Picasa-for-Linux?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
