>> You're the only person who's ever reported having this problem, and -- >> unfortunately -- it looks like you've been having it for a while too, given >> that we sent some messages back-and-forth about this six months ago. Out of >> curiosity, have you re-installed your operating system between then and now? >> If you haven't, it might be something to consider. There may be something >> about the configuration mapper on your machine that is just broken. Other >> than advising that, there's little more we can do on this end. You very >> helpfully submitted stack traces and log files late last year and, upon >> examining them, it was clear that the problem occurred deep inside of the >> GSettings-to-GConf mapper (gconfsettingsbackend). This might be an issue for >> you to take up on their mailing list or Bugzilla. In Shotwell, we use >> GSettings in way wholly compliant with GSettings best practices. Another >> place you might want to bring this up is on a Gentoo mailing list. >> Specifically, I'd ask the Gentoo packagers why they're using a >> GSettings-to-GConf mapper, because GSettings is designed as an evolution >> over GConf and should have no relation to it whatsoever. This is discussed >> in the GNOME Goal Blueprint Paper on GConf to GSettings Migration here: >> https://live.gnome.org/GnomeGoals/GSettingsMigration. > > Thank you for the info. This should be enough to get me going in the > right direction. I'll report back if I find anything. > > - Grant
I'm happy to report that all I had to do was install dconf and now shotwell seems to be working perfectly. - Grant >>> I've been having a problem with Shotwell crashing when importing with >>> the "Copy Photos" option as opposed to "Import in Place" which does >>> not crash. I was having this problem with 0.13.1 as described in this >>> thread: >>> >>> http://shotwell.996238.n3.nabble.com/Crashes-when-importing-td56658.html >>> >>> and now 0.14.0. I have tried deleting .gconf/org/yorba/shotwell >>> (.gconf/apps/shotwell does not exist) but the result is the same. I >>> get various errors in the console such as these: >>> >>> (shotwell:6623): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_engine_pop_owner_usage: >>> assertion `engine->owner_use_count > 0' failed >>> >>> (shotwell:14699): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src >>> != NULL' failed >>> >>> ERROR:gconfsettingsbackend.c:205:gconf_settings_backend_remove_notifier: >>> assertion failed: (notifier && g_str_equal (path, notifier->path)) >>> >>> I'm on Gentoo fully up-to-date. _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
