Hi David,
thanks for your quick response. I don't know why the bug report ended
up with no subject, I explicitly specified one in debbug. Maybe some
editing mishap on my part in the vi later..
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 09:16:02AM +0200, David Paleino wrote:
> > During the last weeks, gthumb has been becoming more and more unstable for
> > me.
>
> This is hardly a gThumb bug: its last upload was at mid-March. And this is far
> older than "last weeks".
Some more investigation shows: There was a length list of bookmarks in
~/.gtk-bookmarks, all of them relatively long path names of mp3
directories on my machine.
I do not recall adding hundreds and hundreds of directories to any
bookmark list in any application. However, I only started to use gxmms2
very recently, not sure if it might be responsible for atting those
bookmarks. Time-wise it would probably match the occurrence of my
gthumb issues.
After deleting the ~/.gtk-bookmarks file, gthumb works like a charm
again. (I know, I should have simply renamed it or kept a backup copy,
but that thought occurred about 2 seconds too late).
So the bug seems definitely related to a long bookmarks list with long
path names in them.
And indeed, if I use something like
'find /sunbeam/mp3_dark/a-z -type d > ~/.gtk-bookmarks'
gthumb immediately crashes on start with SIGABRT again.
The file at this point contains 1075 lines, the longest of them 156
characters long. A number of them contain special characters like ';'
'(' ')' '!' due to the nature of those file-names being auto-generated
from CDDB at the time of their CD-ripping.
I could provide the file privately, but don't want to attach it to a
public bug report. I just don't want the entire world to see a
directory of my music collection.
Regards,
Harald
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