Dmedia

dmedia-import crashes when dmedia is already running.

Bug #754677 reported by David Green on 2011-04-08

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Dmedia	Fix Released	Critical	Jason Gerard DeRose	Dmedia 0.6 "go time"

Bug Description

If I run dmedia-import when dmedia is already running it crashes with an error ( full traceback: http://paste.ubuntu.com/591250/ ). If I shutdown dmedia using the indicator and then run the identical command again it works perfectly.

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lp:dmedia

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David Green (david4dev) wrote on 2011-04-08:

service.log Edit (11.4 KiB, text/plain)

Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) on 2011-04-08

Changed in dmedia:
status:	New → Confirmed
importance:	Undecided → Critical
milestone:	none → 0.6

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Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) wrote on 2011-04-08:

Okay, this one I *can* reproduce :)

One interesting thing is that if I fire off a few imports one after another (2nd one before the 1st finishes), it works fine. For example, dmedia-service wasn't running, and I did this without any problems:

jderose@jgd-ws:~$ dmedia-import Videos/Tara/
started
jderose@jgd-ws:~$ dmedia-import Videos/Brainard\ Lake/
started

Then I waited for those to finish, for dmedia-service to go back to it's idle state, and tried starting a 3rd import. Now I get your crash:

jderose@jgd-ws:~$ dmedia-import Videos/hulahoops/
Traceback (most recent call last):
...
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'get'

So definitely some problem with the Startup => Import => Idle State => Import sequence. I think this will be a quick fix.

As always, thanks for spending so much time beating up on dmedia, David! Really appreciate it.

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Jason Gerard DeRose (jderose) wrote on 2011-04-08:

Okay, that was easy... a one line fix.

Seemed to fix the problem for me anyway. Could you please test the bzr182 daily build once it's available? I'll leave this bug "In Progress" till we confirm that this fixes it for you also.

Thanks!