Bug#1055268: hugin crashes to the point of restarting GDM3

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2023-11-03 carsten wolf <debian at 1u6.org> wrote:
> Package: hugin
> Version: 2023.0~rc1+dfsg-1
> Severity: normal

> Dear Maintainer,

> *** Reporter, please consider answering these questions, where appropriate ***

>    * What led up to the situation?
> starting hugin
> import 2x png images to stich.

>    * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or
>      ineffective)?

> manually set "control points". 
> adding first control point works. 
> while defining the second control point gnome-desktop crashes without synching filesystem or giving usable error-log output

>    * What was the outcome of this action?

> GDM3 will be restarted reproduceable which kills immediately GNOME-desktop with all running tasks and without flushing open files.

>    * What outcome did you expect instead?

> expecting to be able to set an additional control point, and finally stich an image.  
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Hello,

I have no idea what is going wrong here. Using png (instead of jpeg)
makes no difference for me.

It also looks fishy that gnome crashes, instead of hugin. Is this on
waylaynd or X11?

cu Andreas