Aperture crashing during Flickr export

I've uploaded a new set of photos today and again had a broken pipe problem. I was able to upload one different photo last night which was slightly strange.

Same here, although I can sometimes get an export to run OK if I restart and attempt it again. This was happening with v2 so I hoped the beta version would fix it but sadly not :(

Here's my console error message FWIW:

05/05/2008 20:40:19 com.apple.launchd[114] ([0x0-0x2a02a].com.apple.Aperture[204]) Exited abnormally: Broken pipe

Edit:

After enabling debugging here's what I got:

05/05/2008 20:54:02 Aperture[238] Headers written
05/05/2008 20:54:02 Aperture[238] Upload progress: 0 of 2748644
05/05/2008 20:54:37 Aperture[238] Upload progress: 640000 of 2748644
05/05/2008 20:55:20 Aperture[238] Upload progress: 1280000 of 2748644
05/05/2008 20:56:04 Aperture[238] Upload progress: 1920000 of 2748644
05/05/2008 20:56:14 com.apple.launchd[114] ([0x0-0x34034].com.apple.Aperture[238]) Exited abnormally: Broken pipe

Same broken pipe message........
Why has this just started to happen? I have been uploading photos with FlickrExport for months and months with no problem. I have even left it uploading all night with dozens of large files............Now it's started to play up!!

I've just come across this thread, I don't know if it has any bearing on why our problems have just started!?!

http://www.flickr.com/help/forum/en-u...

Thanks for the pointer. That has got me to a solution that is allowing me to upload as a workaround.

I am with Virgin Media (formerly Blueyonder) and recently found that I was unable to connect to my del.icio.us bookmarks unless I used a blueyonder proxy server. Similarly other Virgin Media users I know had exactly the same problem. I raised this with tech support and it was escalated and then magically fixed. I couldn’t see and reason why one HAD to use a proxy to connect to a site.

While I couldn’t upload a single image to Flickr tonight once I enabled the proxy connection in network prefs I was able to upload six with no problem. Again, I don’t see why I should have to do this.

It sounds like Flickr are on the case which is a good thing as I imagine they have the clout to get it fixed. I will contact them again in any case.

Cheers.

As far as I can tell I can still upload to Flickr via Safari without using a proxy. Is there any reason why those transfers are unaffected?

Overnight, Aperture went 'poof' after uploading 29 photos out of a batch of 40. Curiously, it doesn't seem to have spawned a crash log. Second time this has happened to me out of two medium-batch exports.

I'm in the UK but with Pipex, who I haven't yet seen named as currently problematic with Flickr. Aperture 2.1, FlickrExport 1.0.9 for Aperture.

Fraser - is there anything I can do to help collect information for you?

Same problem uploading RAW from Canon EOS 30D

I, too, have suddenly developed a problem with Aperture crashing during Flickr Export uploading.

I have one symptom that seems to be unique. Or, at least, no one's written of it yet. When I open a FlickrExport event, it will go the "authentication" action, and then I'll get a message that it was not able to get correctly connected. I have to open the FlickrExport event again, and then it will authenticate with Flickr.

This behavior is consistent: first time failure to authenticate, second time success.

And then, if I'm uploading more than one shot, it will crash somewhere in the line of pictures getting uploaded. I've never had it mess up when only uploading a single shot, but any time I'm doing a lot of uploading, I'm going to see this problem.

Some times when this happens, I get the report from Aperture that it closed unintentionally on its last use, but mostly I don't.

I had also finally bought a license for the full version of FlickrExport, and applied it. Is it possible something got corrupted in applying the license key?

Oops--sorry, there are mornings my brain should be in a jar.

I'm using Aperture 2.1 under Leopard 10.5.3, and using the latest non-beta version of FlickrExport.

Hi All -
I'm having the same problem too with Aperture 2.1, Mac OS X 10.5.3 and Flickr Export 1.0.9.

Console Errors after the crash:
7/7/08 10:01:26 AM com.apple.launchd[77] ([0x0-0x120120].com.apple.Aperture[15564]) Exited abnormally: Broken pipe
7/7/08 10:02:01 AM [0x0-0x12a12a].com.apple.Aperture[15792] Mon Jul 7 10:02:01 Aperture[15792] CGContextGetType: invalid context

So is there any solution to this?

I have this problem and have found that it is only happening with one particular image that I am trying to upload. It turns out that if I choose the "Flickr 10Mb" option it doesn't happen. I have a pro account, so I guess the version that I am uploading exceeds the 20Mb limit imposed by Flickr. I have no idea how the API works, but I guess maybe Flickr are just closing the socket once 20Mb of data has been uploaded. Hopefully there is some way of handling it gracefully.

I am having the same problem. Aperture crashes during the upload. It is not a file size problem.
Ben Cutshall

Thanks for the update, Fraser - good to know the problem is identified, at least.