Referencer

Referencer crashes when importing folder

Bug #192279 reported by Allan Day on 2008-02-16

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Referencer	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned	Referencer 1.2.0

Bug Description

I have a collection of nearly 400 documents (pdf, html, odt, doc...). When I try and import them into referencer (using Documents > Add folder), the 'Add Document Files' dialogue comes up, but the whole application crashes after it has processed about 50 documents. I get the same result every time I try this operation. I also get the same error in the terminal every time it crashes:

(referencer:9907): GdkPixbuf-CRITICAL **: gdk_pixbuf_scale_simple: assertion `dest_height > 0' failed
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

I'm running referencer 1.1.0 on an up to date Gutsy system.

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John S (jcspray) wrote on 2008-02-23:

Check for undersized thumbnails Edit (830 bytes, text/plain)

Sounds as if an external thumbnail is (wrongly) giving referencer a zero-sized image. If you're working from source you could try the attached patch, alternatively figure out which file is causing the problem and attach it here.

Changed in referencer:
status:	New → Fix Committed

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Allan Day (allanday) wrote on 2008-03-01:

Two html files with accompanying images. Edit (40.1 KiB, application/x-tar)

Thanks for your response, John. I've identified two files (in fact, they're html files, each with an accompanying directory of images, etc) which seem to be the cause of the problem. I've attached a tarball which contains the offending items.

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John S (jcspray) wrote on 2008-03-01:

I thought they might be html. The behaviour completely depends on what you have installed for thumbnailing html documents: on my (ubuntu) system they don't get thumbnailed at all. The fix I mention above is in the just-released version 1.1.1 of referencer, so give that a try.

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Allan Day (allanday) wrote on 2008-03-02:

That's great. Thanks John. I'll definitely give the new version a try.

Mads Chr. Olesen (shiyee) on 2012-11-23