Aha. This is a bogus bug. When attempting to debug bug 444300, I had installed gthumb-2.10.11 in /usr/local. I've now deleted everything under /usr/local, and don't see the hang that this bug refers to; now I see bug 444300 manifesting instead.
** Changed in: gthumb (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- gthumb hangs when run to import photos from USB stick https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/557855 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gthumb in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs