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[SRU] Shotwell crashes on startup / Crash in exiv2 due to assertion when setting rating on jpg with a Casio makernote

Bug #1584853 reported by Ricardo Bánffy
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
exiv2 (Debian)
Fix Released
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exiv2 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
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Xenial
Fix Released
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Bug Description

[Impact]

 * exiv2 crash with Casio makernote
 * trivial patch

[Test Case]

 * start shotwell with Casio makernote images

[Regression Potential]

 * none
[Other Info]

Starting from the command line, this can be seen:

shotwell: tiffcomposite.cpp:749: virtual Exiv2::Internal::TiffComponent* Exiv2::Internal::TiffMnEntry::doAddPath(uint16_t, Exiv2::Internal::TiffPath&, Exiv2::Internal::TiffComponent*, Exiv2::Internal::TiffComponent::AutoPtr): Assertion `mn_' failed.
Aborted (core dumped)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: shotwell 0.22.0+git20160108.r1.f2fb1f7-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-22.40-generic 4.4.8
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon May 23 08:48:32 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-09-20 (245 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422)
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2016-04-21 (31 days ago)
shotwell.log:
 L 24280 2016-05-23 08:46:56 [MSG] main.vala:385: Shotwell Photo Manager 0.22.0
 L 24280 2016-05-23 08:46:56 [MSG] main.vala:43: Verifying database ...

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Ricardo Bánffy (rbanffy) wrote :
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Jens Georg (yg-jensge) wrote :

Hi,

this is a bug in exiv2. It has been fixed in debian's exiv2 0.25-3 package

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Jens Georg (yg-jensge) wrote :

See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=765963 for upstream discussion.

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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :

0.25-3 could be SRUed to Xenial. The diff is very small.

affects: shotwell (Ubuntu) → exiv2 (Ubuntu)
Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987)
summary: - Shotwell crashes on startup
+ Shotwell crashes on startup / Crash in exiv2 due to assertion when
+ setting rating on jpg with a Casio makernote
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in exiv2 (Debian):
status: Unknown → Fix Released
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : Re: Shotwell crashes on startup / Crash in exiv2 due to assertion when setting rating on jpg with a Casio makernote

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in exiv2 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Alberto Salvia Novella (es20490446e)
Changed in exiv2 (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → High
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Amr Ibrahim (amribrahim1987) wrote :

Please nominate to Xenial.

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nyarla33 (mr-somewhere) wrote :

Please nominate to Xenial.

Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco)
Changed in exiv2 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Changed in exiv2 (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: New → Fix Committed
description: updated
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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

done, please test package on ppa:costamagnagianfranco/locutusofborg-ppa

summary: - Shotwell crashes on startup / Crash in exiv2 due to assertion when
+ [SRU] Shotwell crashes on startup / Crash in exiv2 due to assertion when
setting rating on jpg with a Casio makernote
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Please test proposed package

Hello Ricardo, or anyone else affected,

Accepted exiv2 into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exiv2/0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed.Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

tags: added: verification-needed
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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

@Ricardo can you please test it?

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

I'm not sure about the testing I performed, but I didn't experience any crash during my test

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package exiv2 - 0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.1

---------------
exiv2 (0.25-2.1ubuntu16.04.1) xenial; urgency=medium

  * SRU 0.25-3 to Ubuntu xenial (LP: #1584853)

  [ Norbert Preining ]
  * Fix crashes on Casio images files (upstream cherry pick) (Closes: #814051)
  * mention XMP in the description (Closes: #790784)

 -- Gianfranco Costamagna <email address hidden> Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:17:15 +0100

Changed in exiv2 (Ubuntu Xenial):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote : Update Released

The verification of the Stable Release Update for exiv2 has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

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