Tore thumbnail + django issues in production

I am using Sorl thumbnail with Django. It works fine on my local setup, but no thumbnails are created during the production process.

My code is as follows:

{% load thumbnail %}
{% thumbnail up.image "32x32" crop="center" as im %}
<img src="{{ im.url }}" width="{{ im.width }}" height="{{ im.height }}">
{% empty %}
<img src="{{ MEDIA_URL }}/images/missing_small.png" alt="" title="" />
{% endthumbnail %}

I turned on logging, and the trace looks like this:

Traceback (most recent call last):

[...]

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line
215, in load
raise_ioerror(e)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line
52, in raise_ioerror
raise IOError(message + " when reading image file")

IOError: broken data stream when reading image file

The error does not help much, since the file is and is readable by everyone. I am not sure how to get a more obvious error, or what to try and fix.

And then even more perplexing is the fact that it works with manage.py shell

In [1]: from sorl.thumbnail import get_thumbnail

In [2]: im = get_thumbnail('/myproject/static/images/user_profiles/1/11-20-2010-2_5.jpg',
'32x32', crop='center' )

In [3]: im
Out[3]: <sorl.thumbnail.images.ImageFile object at 0x29fe090>

In [4]: im.url
Out[4]: 'http://example.com/cache/ff/31/ff318b4a995ff345d1d48e79b67ec62b.jpg'

He made a thumbnail, he just won’t make it using the template code.

Is anyone