I've emailed the stacktrace and log to shotwell at yorba dot org.
To clarify my situation, shotwell is running fine for me with
gstreamer-plugins-ffmpeg and WITHOUT gstreamer-plugins-bad. I'm getting
thumbnails on my .MOV files.
For the stacktrace, I reinstalled gstreamer-plugins-bad.
-Eric
> Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2012 11:34:54 -0700
> Subject: Re: [Shotwell] shotwell crashing after installing gstreamer-ffmpeg
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]; [email protected]
>
> Hi all,
>
> Apologies for bothering the list, but this sounds very much like a
> problem some users were encountering if the thumbnailer tried to run
> on a machine with certain versions of gstreamer-plugins-bad installed;
> in that case, the crash was not in the Shotwell code itself, but
> rather in an underlying library (please see
> http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5252 and
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683053).
>
> Eric, if you do manage to obtain a stacktrace and happen to see it
> crashing at or near the same spot in dca_syncinfo(), please let us
> know; I seem to remember there being some combination of libraries
> that could be installed as a workaround, or one could build and
> install libdca from source from VLC's trunk (the version they have is
> somewhat ahead of what's being used in GStreamer at the moment, it
> seems, and the crash has been fixed).
>
> Cheers,
> -c
>
> On 18/10/2012, Lucas Beeler <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Hi Eric,
> >
> > There's little I can say about your problem without more diagnostic
> > information. Specifically, it would be very helpful to have a stack
> > trace and log file from the crash. To learn how to generate both of
> > these, See the "I found a bug in Shotwell. How can I report it?"
> > section of the Shotwell FAQ here:
> > http://redmine.yorba.org/projects/shotwell/wiki/ShotwellFAQ#I-found-a-bug-in-Shotwell-How-can-I-report-it.
> > The Shotwell mailing list doesn't accept attachments, but you can send
> > an email with an attachment directly to the Shotwell dev team by
> > emailing [email protected].
> >
> > Lucas
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Eric L <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> So yesterday I installed gstreamer-ffmpeg to get video thumbnails to work.
> >> And shotwell did start creating video thumbnails. No crashing yesterday,
> >> but I don't think I had it running very long.
> >> Today, I start shotwell. Start an import (with videos), Walk the dog,
> >> Comeback and there's no shotwell running.
> >> I start it again from the command line. Shotwell closes after less than a
> >> minute. - Segmentation fault
> >> I'm running Fedora 17 and the latest Shotwell from git.
> >> What do you think?
> >> -Eric
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>
> --
> public struct Box {
> public static const int HAND_GRENADES = 12;
> -- from shotwell/src/Box.vala
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