Launching xviewer results in lots of console errors.

[poldon]

 * Xviewer version: Xviewer 2.8.3
 * Distribution - (Mint 20.1)

Issue

Every time I launch Xviewer, it results in lots of console errors. Most of the time it launches fine, but others it segfaults until I reboot.

Steps to reproduce

Launch Xviewer from the shell.

Expected behaviour

No output on the shell.

Other information

Here are the errors:

(xviewer:9568): WARNING : 10:33:57.354: Couldn't load UI resource: The resource at “/org/x/viewer/plugins/exif-display/exif-display.ui” does not exist

(xviewer:9568): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 10:33:57.354: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(xviewer:9568): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.354: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

(xviewer:9568): XVIEWER-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.354: xviewer_sidebar_add_page: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (main_widget)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.354: gtk_widget_show_all: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_get_label: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_get_label: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_get_label: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_get_label: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_widget_set_tooltip_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.477: gtk_label_set_text: assertion 'GTK_IS_LABEL (label)' failed

(xviewer:9568): Gtk-CRITICAL **: 10:33:57.483: gtk_widget_queue_draw: assertion 'GTK_IS_WIDGET (widget)' failed

[programmer-ceds]

I can reproduce this by enabling "Edit/Preferences/Plugins/Exif Display". With this plugin not selected I don't get the errors but "File/Properties" or right-clicking on the image and selecting "Properties" gives (at least some, possibly all available - I haven't checked) EXIF data on the "Metadata" and "Details" tabs.

It could be that the plugin is no longer required (and is effectively broken).

If disabling the plugin and viewing the image properties gives all of the available information perhaps the "Display Exif" plugin should be removed from the xviewer plugins project to prevent this being reported again?

[poldon]

I had rebooted after reporting this, and it has worked fine since. Not sure why, but I'll close this.