[what I did, although probably irrelevant to the problem, as described below]
I have a removable drive with all my photos on it.
Initially, I started shotwell with the drive UNplugged, so it showed lots of pictures as "missing".
I then quit, plugged in the drive, and started up shotwell.
It promptly froze, and subsequent kill/restarts continued to freeze.
[probably the cause of the problem]
It appears as if there is a /usr/bin/shotwell-video-thumbnailer process that ends up in state 'Sl' according to ps, and it runs on a '/media/SDCARD/PRIVATE/AVCHD/BDMV/MOVIEOBJ.BDM', some data file that gets generated by Panasonic cameras. Once I kill that process and wait a few seconds, shotwell comes back to life.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: shotwell 0.11.6-0ubuntu0.1 [modified: usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/gschemas.compiled]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-14.23-generic-pae 3.0.9
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-14-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Dec 27 22:43:22 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Beta i386 (20110921.2)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: shotwell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Thanks for the bug report. We've ticketed this upstream:
http://
Could you possibly attach the offending video (MOVIEOBJ.BDM) here, or post a link to it if it's too large to attach?