f-spot crashes when importing a particular photo

I can confirm this using f-spot 0.4.4-1ubuntu4. I did not experience a true "crash" though. For me, F-Spot immediately started to slow down the whole machine by taking all available RAM (res: 1.5 of 2gig, virt: 3.874gig). This went on for more than 2 minutes until I just killed it.

The pertinent part of the log seems to be:
open uri = file:///home/greg/Photos/2008/10/04/PA040011.JPG
old = "" new = "" heading = "ASCII"
value = 2008:10:04 22:33:50 len = 19
<uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b> <http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/creatortool> "Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6000.16386" .
<uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b> <http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/software> "Microsoft Windows Photo Gallery 6.0.6000.16386" .
<uuid:faf5bdd5-ba3d-11da-ad31-d33d75182f1b> <http://ns.adobe.com/tiff/1.0/Orientation> "1" .
value = f-spot version 0.4.4 len = 20
value = 2008:10:06 23:47:41 len = 19
value = f-spot version 0.4.4 len = 20
value = 2008:10:06 23:47:41 len = 19

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555340

This behavior also happens in my version of 0.5.0.2 (from this PPA: https://launchpad.net/~chrisccoulson/+archive ) on Intrepid.

Yes, on another photo I also experienced the behavior where the whole machine slowed down to a crawl

trjonescp: could you attach that photo also (if you are willing to share it with us)?

Thanks!

Sorry, not that photo, but if I come across one that I can share that causes
the same problem, I will certainly post it.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:09 AM, Greg Grossmeier
<email address hidden>wrote:

> trjonescp: could you attach that photo also (if you are willing to share
> it with us)?
>
> Thanks!
>
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> f-spot crashes when importing a particular photo
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/279440
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This bug was fixed in the package f-spot - 0.7.1-1

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f-spot (0.7.1-1) experimental; urgency=low

  [ Iain Lane ]
  * New upstream release 0.7.1 "The Big Switch"
   + Second release of the unstable 0.7 development series. Most notably
     including a switch to Taglib#. Regressions in the amount of RAW
     types supported, will be fixed before releasing 0.8.
   + Switched to a new Taglib#-backed metadata layer. This is a huge change
     which should bring us increased stability (in the long run) and a much
     easier to maintain metadata layer than the one we previously had. Also
     enables some funky new features like XMP sidecars. (Ruben Vermeersch,
     Mike Gemünde) (LP: #279440, #69577, #260706)
   + Add support for XMP sidecars (Ruben Vermeersch)
   + Add "remove from camera after import"-option (Ruben Vermeersch)
   + Start of a massive backend cleanup (Mike Gemünde)
   + Upstreaming of a lot of Debian/Ubuntu patches (Iain Lane)
   + Several dialogs converted from glade to GtkBuilder (Ademir Mendoza,
     Nick Van Eeckhout, Peter Goetz, Trevor Buchanan)
   + Code refactorings and cleanups, increased Hyena adoption (Evan Briones,
     Paul Lange, Paul Wellner Bou)
   + Small usability improvements (Alex Launi, Anton Keks, Iain Churcher,
     Tomas Kovacik)
   + More build retooling (Bertrand Lorentz, Christian Krause, Gabriel Burt)
   + Many bugs fixed and improvements in stability: Over 85 bugs closed
     (http://bit.ly/aKyQOd)
     - Forced lowercase when import is triggered by gnome-volume-manager
       (LP: #249230)
  * ubuntu_nofuse_fix_photo_import.patch: Drop — obsolete with new import
    system.
  * Drop libfspot-linkage patch: Applied upstream
  * Drop jpegtran-linkage patch: Obsolete
  * Drop ubuntu_fix_export_crash_FlickrRemote.cs.patch: Fixed upstream
  * Refresh ubuntu_xdg-photo-dir to apply cleanly
  * Drop default_view_size patch: Fixed upstream
  * Standards-Version → 3.9.0, no changes required
  * No longer need to autoreconf
  * Add debian/clean file and remove override from rules
  * Add build-depency on gnome-doc-utils to build user help
 -- Iain Lane <email address hidden> Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:53:00 +0100