The stack trace shows this is happening inside of GStreamer. Shotwell uses GStreamer when importing videos to obtain their metadata. It also uses it to create thumbnails, but that happens in a separate process and shouldn't crash Shotwell.
** Also affects: gstreamer Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: shotwell (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to shotwell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1190118 Title: shotwell crashed with SIGABRT in __assert_fail_base() Status in The GStreamer Multimedia Framework: New Status in “shotwell” package in Ubuntu: Invalid Bug description: I can't tell if this could be a dupe, so I'll file it. Can't quite remember if the crash was during an import (from an android phone in PTP mode). Thanks. ProblemType: Crash DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: shotwell 0.14.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-25.17-lowlatency 3.8.13 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-25-lowlatency x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.1 Architecture: amd64 Date: Sun Jun 9 22:20:48 2013 ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/shotwell MarkForUpload: True ProcCmdline: shotwell ProcEnviron: PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash Signal: 6 SourcePackage: shotwell StacktraceTop: raise () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 abort () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 __assert_fail () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 __pthread_tpp_change_priority () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpthread.so.0 Title: shotwell crashed with SIGABRT in raise() UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2012-06-14 (360 days ago) UserGroups: adm cdrom dip lpadmin nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare sudo wireshark To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gstreamer/+bug/1190118/+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