/home directory was NFS mounted and client side locking was not enabled. Error message was misleading. Installing 'nfs-common' so that rpc.statd executes solved the problem.
** Changed in: f-spot (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- f-spot crashes at startup complains about "Unsupported database version" https://launchpad.net/bugs/63484 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs