GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 635465
f-spot crashes when importing a gthumb rotated jpeg
Last modified: 2018-07-01 08:55:18 UTC
I initially thought that this was related to the Nikon Coolpix S600 as it appears to cause problems for f-spot with the exif data and f-spot reports the file metadata as possibly corrupt and therefore writes to a sidecar file. However; while getting the evidence together for this bug report I also tried it on another jpeg (from a Canon 350D) and rotated that in gthumb and then imported into f-spot, and that crashed too. This would suggest that the problem lies with something gthumb does to the file during rotation rather than it being specifically related to the Nikon. I'll attach a couple of debug outputs and jpegs to this report from the Nikon but I suspect that his can be reproduced with other camera models. It may be relevant that when an import is attempted of an image that has been rotated in gthumb, f-spot gives it a very odd date (1/1/1). I've attached this as a screendump.
Created attachment 174985 [details] output using f-spot --debug This is the output when importing an image that has not been rotated in gthumb. Two f-spot actions are carried out. Rotate, write tag ('testtag')
Created attachment 174986 [details] f-spot with --debug This debug output shows the crash when importing a jpeg that has been rotated in gthumb.
Created attachment 174987 [details] Import dialog showing strange date
images too big to attach so uploaded to http://www.flickr.com/photos/djnisbet/sets/72157625440317610/with/5195697119/ however suspect this is probably reproducible with images from other cameras. Running ubuntu (maverick) dougie@pheonix:~$ gthumb -v gthumb 2.11.3, Copyright (C) 2001-2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. dougie@pheonix:~$ uname -a Linux pheonix 2.6.35-22-generic-pae #35-Ubuntu SMP Sat Oct 16 22:16:51 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux dougie@pheonix:~$
tested with git version b68c243c6e85434382f6f941f123d031530d2e21 With the current git version it is not possible to import the rotated picture. The picture seems OK and jhead and exiftool don't show anything strange in the meta information. Perhaps a problem in taglib?
f-spot is not under active development anymore, has not seen code changes for five years, and saw its last tarball release in the year 2010. Its codebase has been archived: https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/f-spot/commits/master Closing this report as WONTFIX as part of Bugzilla Housekeeping to reflect reality. Please feel free to reopen this ticket (or rather transfer the project to GNOME Gitlab, as GNOME Bugzilla is deprecated) if anyone takes the responsibility for active development again.