PhotoFlow plugin for GIMP crashes

Software PhotoFlow
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Hi,
I’m new to the forum, and I need help from the experts here.
I’m running Ubuntu 16.04 64 bits and I’ve downloaded the Gimp Appimage. The program runs OK, but there is now way I can use the PhotoFlow plugin, as it always crashes at startup.
No matter if trying to open a raw image or by simply calling it from the Gimp menu.

Any clue ?
Thanks in advance.

Marco

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@MarcoNex First of all, welcome to the forum!

Could you provide me a log of all the console messages printed by the gimp AppImage when you try to open a RAW file with the PhF plug-in?

Thanks!

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Thanks for your answer, here are the logs:

gimp-terminal-log.txt (10.3 KB)

The Gimp error console gives the following:

GIMP Error
Plug-in crashed: “pfgimp-load”
(/tmp/.mount_KdnvqA/usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/pfgimp-load)

The dying plug-in may have messed up GIMP’s internal state. You may want to save your images and restart GIMP to be on the safe side.

GIMP Error
Opening ‘/media/Dati/foto da archiviare/color/DSC02997.ARW’ failed:

Procedure ‘file-photoflow-sony-load’ returned no return values

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Strange… I will provide an updated GIMP+PhF AppImage in a few hours, so I suggest to try again with it. meanwhile, could you provide a sample of the failing RAW file?

Thanks!

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It seem all my Sony ARW file make PhF crash; same story with Nikon NEF files.
It crashes also opening a jpeg and calling the plugin from the Gimp menu.

Downloaded the new version of Appimage, no luck.

Thanks,
Marco

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Could you send me again the logs from the latest appimage? I’d like to see also the one from the JPEG file…

Which system are you using?

Thanks!

Edit: I see you are using Ubuntu 16.04… that’s the system on which I produce and test the appimage, so it is really strange…

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This is the log when trying to open PhF from jpeg
For completeness, I launched Gimp with the option --verbose and redirected both stdout and stderr to the logfile
jpeg.log.txt (37.0 KB)

It seems to me that just before the plugin is terminated there are several warning like:
vips warning: TIFFReadDirectory: Unknown field with tag 18246 (0x4746) encountered

perhaps the plugin is trying to read a corrupted tif file.
Also, I noticed that next time I try to reopen PhF I get the following dialog

and If I say Yes, the PhF opens, but with a completely screwed histogram

1215×728 34 KB

It seems some kind of file corruption problem, or ?

Thanks
Marco

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I honestly have no clue for the moment… I have tried to do the same on my Ubuntu system, and all runs fine.

On the other hand, I am going to completely change the way the plugin is invoked, and follow the same idea of Darktable (a separate executable instead of a compiled-in shared object), so we might want to postpone this investigation for a couple of weeks until the new plugin is ready.

Maybe you could give the PhotoFlow AppImage a try, and tell me if it works? You can download the latest from here (take the one tagged 20170202).

Thanks!

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Tried PhotoFlow Appimage and it crashes when opening any image.
Then I installed regular PhotoFlow from ppa and it works fine !
I will make a post on the PhF Appimage forum.

Thanks a lot.
Marco

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@MarcoNex I have prepared a special PhF AppImage, which is compiled with debugging symbols and runs the program through gdb (you need to have gdb installed in your system for this to work): https://github.com/aferrero2707/PhotoFlow/releases/download/continuous/PhotoFlow-20170204-git-stable-8b4de2a8c24d6a03655dbb5e1cd730bf519c8791.glibc2.14-dbg-x86_64.AppImage

Could you try to reproduce the crash with this special version, and send me the full backtrace of the crash? You can obtain it with the following gdb commands:

set pagination off
set logging file log.txt
set logging on
thread apply all bt full

See here for details…

Thanks!

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Here are the gdb logs.
I have done two, one when opening a JPG and one for Sony ARW.

logjpg.txt (24.1 KB)
logarw.txt (14.8 KB)

Maybe an error in the GUI ?

Thanks,
Marco

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The crash occurs in the VIPS code… I have now added debugging symbols to the VIPS library bundled in the appimage, maybe this will provide a better insight: https://github.com/aferrero2707/PhotoFlow/releases/download/continuous/PhotoFlow-20170205-git-stable-1b8996b36e85999508f4b627b72041877e3695c3.glibc2.14-dbg-x86_64.AppImage

If you could provide again the logs with this new version, it would be really great!

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Here is the new log:

logjpg.txt (25.6 KB)

Thanks,

Marco

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I’m totally lost… VIPS is crashing in a place that looks totally innocent.

The only idea I could think of was to update the VIPS version to the latest one (8.4.5), and rebuild the appimage again. It should appear in about one hour in the usual place: Release Continuous build · aferrero2707/PhotoFlow · GitHub

I will check tomorrow morning if it has been correctly generated, and let you know.

Thanks!