Digikam crash when removing stars in editor

[gerlos]

Hello everyone!
I want to thanks developers for doing a great job with the new digiKam!
Three questions...

A couple of weeks ago I upgraded my distro from the ultra-stable
Mandriva 2008.1 to the by-now-not -so-new Mandriva 2009, getting with it
a release candidate of new digiKam 0.10.
KDE4.1.3 was really unstable and I tried to update it using the KDE 4.2
repositories from here: http://kde.org/download/#v4.2.

Digikam was still unstable, crashing very often, so yesterday I
downloaded latest exiv2, kipi-plugins and digikam and tried to install
them from sources.
I'm not sure if everything went OK (but I didn't got any error when
compiling), I didn't tried everything, right now it seems to work
better, but digikam is still crashing when I'm in the editor and
remove/edit stars from photos in the thumbnail strip.
Is it a known problem? Is it possible to solve it? Should I open a new
bug report?

I guess you may need some more info about the problem, please tell me
what to do to give more useful  informations.

Second question: There's another thing I don't understand, I don't know
if I should consider it a bug or not... The problem is that the editor
and the lightbox start always in fullscreen mode, when I'd like to have
them in windowed mode. I  looked in the configuration, but couldn't find
any option to change this behaviour, any clue?

Lastly, since I work a lot with photos and digiKam, I was thinking to
wait some more time to use version 0.10.x and install latest 0.9.x
version, do you think such "downgrade" could be possibile (and not
dangerous) for my collection? (I have something like 70000 shots tagged
and starred...).

regards
gerlos

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[Marcel Wiesweg]

> I'm not sure if everything went OK (but I didn't got any error when
> compiling), I didn't tried everything, right now it seems to work
> better, but digikam is still crashing when I'm in the editor and
> remove/edit stars from photos in the thumbnail strip.
> Is it a known problem?
Maybe - depends on your version
> Is it possible to solve it?
Yes! ;-)
> Should I open a new bug report?
If you are running 0.10.0 final, please open a new bug report with a backtrace of the crash. If you are running any release candidate, including the latest, please update to 0.10.0 final and test with this.

>
> I guess you may need some more info about the problem, please tell me
> what to do to give more useful informations.
>
> Second question: There's another thing I don't understand, I don't know
> if I should consider it a bug or not... The problem is that the editor
> and the lightbox start always in fullscreen mode, when I'd like to have
> them in windowed mode. I looked in the configuration, but couldn't find
> any option to change this behaviour, any clue?

Usually the window size is stored. The initial size, after first use, is set by the window manager.

>
> Lastly, since I work a lot with photos and digiKam, I was thinking to
> wait some more time to use version 0.10.x and install latest 0.9.x
> version, do you think such "downgrade" could be possibile (and not
> dangerous) for my collection? (I have something like 70000 shots tagged
> and starred...).

0.10.0 will convert your database to a new format that 0.9 does not understand. The old file is still there and untouched. But work that you do on the new file won't get into the old file and vice versa. You can delete the new file (digikam4.db) now and convert again when you definitely switch.

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[gerlos]

Marcel Wiesweg ha scritto:

>
>
> > I'm not sure if everything went OK (but I didn't got any error when
> > compiling), I didn't tried everything, right now it seems to work
> > better, but digikam is still crashing when I'm in the editor and
> > remove/edit stars from photos in the thumbnail strip.
> > Is it a known problem?
> Maybe - depends on your version
> > Is it possible to solve it?
> Yes! ;-)
> > Should I open a new bug report?
> If you are running 0.10.0 final, please open a new bug report with a
> backtrace of the crash. If you are running any release candidate,
> including the latest, please update to 0.10.0 final and test with this.

Thanks for your answer!
Yes, I've installed 0.10.0 final. Here's the output of digikam --version:
Qt: 4.5.0
KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1)
digiKam: 0.10.0 (rev.: esportato)

I don't know how to make a backtrace, now I'm googling for it, but if
you can give me a useful link, I'll read it and open the bug.

> > Second question: There's another thing I don't understand, I don't know
> > if I should consider it a bug or not... The problem is that the editor
> > and the lightbox start always in fullscreen mode, when I'd like to have
> > them in windowed mode. I looked in the configuration, but couldn't find
> > any option to change this behaviour, any clue?
>
>
> Usually the window size is stored. The initial size, after first use,
> is set by the window manager.

OK, I understand this, but my problem is that digikam starts in
fullscreen mode, as if you type Ctrl-Alt-F, not just with windows
maximized. It hides the panel, the menu bar and window decorations, and
I need to click on the fullscreen button or type Ctrl-Alt-F to make it
switch to the usual windowed mode.
Using a different window manager (compiz instead of kwin) I saw that
this kind of behaviour don't seem to depend from it, and I can reproduce
it with either window manager.

Anyway, I "solved" moving my actual ~/.kde4/share/config/digikamrc and
reconfiguring digikam manually from defaults (I mean, maybe it's not a
solution, it's a workaround). Now it works and I'm happy.
(I don't need to say that restoring previous configuration restores the
problem also... I can reproduce it)

> > Lastly, since I work a lot with photos and digiKam, I was thinking to
> > wait some more time to use version 0.10.x and install latest 0.9.x
> > version, do you think such "downgrade" could be possibile (and not
> > dangerous) for my collection? (I have something like 70000 shots tagged
> > and starred...).
>
>
> 0.10.0 will convert your database to a new format that 0.9 does not
> understand. The old file is still there and untouched. But work that
> you do on the new file won't get into the old file and vice versa. You
> can delete the new file (digikam4.db) now and convert again when you
> definitely switch.

OK, no problem for this, I have a backup of my database before the
upgrade from version 0.9.x to 0.10.x and I told digikam to save metadata
inside the images, so I will lose really little data.
I think I'll try 0.10.0 for some more time to if it is sufficient stable
for my needs, and after that decide if I will downgrade or not.
I like very much this new version and I'd like to help testing it and
reporting bugs if I can. I think it's the minimum I can do after using
this great piece of software for so many projects of mine!
I feel that I can afford some crash once in a while if it can help
improve digikam!

regards
gerlos



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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2009/3/27 gerlos <[hidden email]>:

> Marcel Wiesweg ha scritto:
>>
>>
>> > I'm not sure if everything went OK (but I didn't got any error when
>> > compiling), I didn't tried everything, right now it seems to work
>> > better, but digikam is still crashing when I'm in the editor and
>> > remove/edit stars from photos in the thumbnail strip.
>> > Is it a known problem?
>> Maybe - depends on your version
>> > Is it possible to solve it?
>> Yes! ;-)
>> > Should I open a new bug report?
>> If you are running 0.10.0 final, please open a new bug report with a
>> backtrace of the crash. If you are running any release candidate,
>> including the latest, please update to 0.10.0 final and test with this.
>
> Thanks for your answer!
> Yes, I've installed 0.10.0 final. Here's the output of digikam --version:
> Qt: 4.5.0
> KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1)
> digiKam: 0.10.0 (rev.: esportato)
>
> I don't know how to make a backtrace, now I'm googling for it, but if
> you can give me a useful link, I'll read it and open the bug.

Look here : http://www.digikam.org/contrib

Gilles Caulier
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[S. Burmeister]

Am Freitag, 27. März 2009 00:37:48 schrieb gerlos:
> > If you are running 0.10.0 final, please open a new bug report with a
> > backtrace of the crash. If you are running any release candidate,
> > including the latest, please update to 0.10.0 final and test with this.
>
> Thanks for your answer!
> Yes, I've installed 0.10.0 final. Here's the output of digikam --version:
> Qt: 4.5.0
> KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1)
> digiKam: 0.10.0 (rev.: esportato)

Using KDE 4.2.x with Qt 4.5 can cause crashes, did you test with 4.4.3?

Sven
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I also run digiKam with KDE 4.2 and Qt 4.5, no crash can be reproduced. There
once was some issue with the star rating widget, but it had been fixed some
weeks ago.

Gerlos,

please try to give us a backtrace, otherwise we can not do anything here...

Andi

On Friday 27 March 2009 10:32:43 Sven Burmeister wrote:

> Am Freitag, 27. März 2009 00:37:48 schrieb gerlos:
> > > If you are running 0.10.0 final, please open a new bug report with a
> > > backtrace of the crash. If you are running any release candidate,
> > > including the latest, please update to 0.10.0 final and test with this.
> >
> > Thanks for your answer!
> > Yes, I've installed 0.10.0 final. Here's the output of digikam --version:
> > Qt: 4.5.0
> > KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1)
> > digiKam: 0.10.0 (rev.: esportato)
>
> Using KDE 4.2.x with Qt 4.5 can cause crashes, did you test with 4.4.3?
>
> Sven
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

I have a new PC here with KDE 4.2.1 and Qt 4.5 (mandriva 2009.1 rc1)
and i cannot reproduce crash here...

We need a backtrace please...

Gilles Caulier

2009/3/27 Andi Clemens <[hidden email]>:

> I also run digiKam with KDE 4.2 and Qt 4.5, no crash can be reproduced. There
> once was some issue with the star rating widget, but it had been fixed some
> weeks ago.
>
> Gerlos,
>
> please try to give us a backtrace, otherwise we can not do anything here...
>
> Andi
>
> On Friday 27 March 2009 10:32:43 Sven Burmeister wrote:
>> Am Freitag, 27. März 2009 00:37:48 schrieb gerlos:
>> > > If you are running 0.10.0 final, please open a new bug report with a
>> > > backtrace of the crash. If you are running any release candidate,
>> > > including the latest, please update to 0.10.0 final and test with this.
>> >
>> > Thanks for your answer!
>> > Yes, I've installed 0.10.0 final. Here's the output of digikam --version:
>> > Qt: 4.5.0
>> > KDE: 4.2.1 (KDE 4.2.1)
>> > digiKam: 0.10.0 (rev.: esportato)
>>
>> Using KDE 4.2.x with Qt 4.5 can cause crashes, did you test with 4.4.3?
>>
>> Sven
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[gerlos]

Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
> I have a new PC here with KDE 4.2.1 and Qt 4.5 (mandriva 2009.1 rc1)
> and i cannot reproduce crash here...
>
> We need a backtrace please...
>  

Thanks for the link, now I'm reading it and recompiling digikam with the
option -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull, when I'm done I'll open the bug
adding my backtrace on bugs.kde.org.
Should I send this information to this mailing list also?

gerlos
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[Gilles Caulier-4]

2009/3/27 gerlos <[hidden email]>:

> Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
>> I have a new PC here with KDE 4.2.1 and Qt 4.5 (mandriva 2009.1 rc1)
>> and i cannot reproduce crash here...
>>
>> We need a backtrace please...
>>
>
> Thanks for the link, now I'm reading it and recompiling digikam with the
> option -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull, when I'm done I'll open the bug
> adding my backtrace on bugs.kde.org.
> Should I send this information to this mailing list also?

No. bugzilla send a copy automatically...

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[gerlos]

Gilles Caulier ha scritto:

> 2009/3/27 gerlos <[hidden email]>:
>  
>> Gilles Caulier ha scritto:
>>    
>>> I have a new PC here with KDE 4.2.1 and Qt 4.5 (mandriva 2009.1 rc1)
>>> and i cannot reproduce crash here...
>>>
>>> We need a backtrace please...
>>>
>>>      
>> Thanks for the link, now I'm reading it and recompiling digikam with the
>> option -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull, when I'm done I'll open the bug
>> adding my backtrace on bugs.kde.org.
>> Should I send this information to this mailing list also?
>>    
>
> No. bugzilla send a copy automatically...
>  

OK, bug report sent, hope in the right way... it was my first time! (not
counting wished features) :-)

bye bye
gerlos


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