Even Digikam 1.4 doesn't run on my Xubuntu 10.04 system - help!

[Chris Green]

This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).

It's obviously something quite specific and subtle as, for most cases,
Digikam runs OK, i.e. :-

    If I login as another user and 'ssh -X -l chris localhost' back to
    myself then digikam runs OK.

    If I 'ssh -l someoneelse -X localhost' on my desktop and run
    digikam as that user then digikam runs OK.

However running digikam as myself on my desktop crashes.  If I remove
most of my configuration (i.e.  remove all of my .xxxxxx hidden files)
then digikam will run as myself on my desktop.  The trouble is there
doesn't seem to be one specific bit of configuration that makes
Digikam crash.  I've spent hours adding things back bit by bit to see
if I can work out the problem but I got all the way back to my
configured desktop and Digikam worked, then the next day after
shutting down and powering up again it was crashing.

It's not the picture files, I can remove the albums completely and
start empty and Digikam still crashes.

Can anyone offer any help or ideas to sort this out, I really need
Digikam working to manage my photos and don't want to have to wait
until a major update before it runs again.

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[Gerben Roest]

On 06-09-10 15:15, Chris G wrote:

> This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
> makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
> Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
> from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).
>
> It's obviously something quite specific and subtle as, for most cases,
> Digikam runs OK, i.e. :-
>
>     If I login as another user and 'ssh -X -l chris localhost' back to
>     myself then digikam runs OK.
>
>     If I 'ssh -l someoneelse -X localhost' on my desktop and run
>     digikam as that user then digikam runs OK.
>
> However running digikam as myself on my desktop crashes.  If I remove
> most of my configuration (i.e.  remove all of my .xxxxxx hidden files)
> then digikam will run as myself on my desktop.  The trouble is there
> doesn't seem to be one specific bit of configuration that makes
> Digikam crash.  I've spent hours adding things back bit by bit to see
> if I can work out the problem but I got all the way back to my
> configured desktop and Digikam worked, then the next day after
> shutting down and powering up again it was crashing.
>
> It's not the picture files, I can remove the albums completely and
> start empty and Digikam still crashes.
>
> Can anyone offer any help or ideas to sort this out, I really need
> Digikam working to manage my photos and don't want to have to wait
> until a major update before it runs again.

As I wrote in a reply to your other mail about digikam crashing:

I also updated to Ubuntu 10.04 (from 8.04, 8,10, 9.04, 9.10) and got the
same crashes as my regular user, but not as a new test-user. I fixed it
by deleting .gconf/system. This directory didn't exist in the $HOME of
the test-user.

I found it out by trial-and-error, and just searching what was in my
normal user's homedir and not in the test user's. Also "strace" helped a
bit.

I hope this works for you too, but please backup this dir just in case.

Gerben


>


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[Chris Green]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0200, Gerben Roest wrote:

> On 06-09-10 15:15, Chris G wrote:
> > This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
> > makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
> > Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
> > from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).
> >
> > It's obviously something quite specific and subtle as, for most cases,
> > Digikam runs OK, i.e. :-
> >
> >     If I login as another user and 'ssh -X -l chris localhost' back to
> >     myself then digikam runs OK.
> >
> >     If I 'ssh -l someoneelse -X localhost' on my desktop and run
> >     digikam as that user then digikam runs OK.
> >
> > However running digikam as myself on my desktop crashes.  If I remove
> > most of my configuration (i.e.  remove all of my .xxxxxx hidden files)
> > then digikam will run as myself on my desktop.  The trouble is there
> > doesn't seem to be one specific bit of configuration that makes
> > Digikam crash.  I've spent hours adding things back bit by bit to see
> > if I can work out the problem but I got all the way back to my
> > configured desktop and Digikam worked, then the next day after
> > shutting down and powering up again it was crashing.
> >
> > It's not the picture files, I can remove the albums completely and
> > start empty and Digikam still crashes.
> >
> > Can anyone offer any help or ideas to sort this out, I really need
> > Digikam working to manage my photos and don't want to have to wait
> > until a major update before it runs again.
>
> As I wrote in a reply to your other mail about digikam crashing:
>
> I also updated to Ubuntu 10.04 (from 8.04, 8,10, 9.04, 9.10) and got the
> same crashes as my regular user, but not as a new test-user. I fixed it
> by deleting .gconf/system. This directory didn't exist in the $HOME of
> the test-user.
>

I tried this too (as a consequence of your previous message), it
doesn't work for me.  Anyway, why would running digikam as 'me' on
another desktop work OK as this has my .gconf directory.


> I found it out by trial-and-error, and just searching what was in my
> normal user's homedir and not in the test user's. Also "strace" helped a
> bit.
>
I've (as I said) spent many hours doing this with no good result.

> I hope this works for you too, but please backup this dir just in case.
>
I will try it again just in case I missed something when I tried it
the first time areound.

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[Chris Green]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:34:43PM +0100, Chris G wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0200, Gerben Roest wrote:
> > On 06-09-10 15:15, Chris G wrote:
> > > This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
> > > makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
> > > Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
> > > from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).
> > >
> > > It's obviously something quite specific and subtle as, for most cases,
> > > Digikam runs OK, i.e. :-
> > >
> > >     If I login as another user and 'ssh -X -l chris localhost' back to
> > >     myself then digikam runs OK.
> > >
> > >     If I 'ssh -l someoneelse -X localhost' on my desktop and run
> > >     digikam as that user then digikam runs OK.
> > >
> > > However running digikam as myself on my desktop crashes.  If I remove
> > > most of my configuration (i.e.  remove all of my .xxxxxx hidden files)
> > > then digikam will run as myself on my desktop.  The trouble is there
> > > doesn't seem to be one specific bit of configuration that makes
> > > Digikam crash.  I've spent hours adding things back bit by bit to see
> > > if I can work out the problem but I got all the way back to my
> > > configured desktop and Digikam worked, then the next day after
> > > shutting down and powering up again it was crashing.
> > >
> > > It's not the picture files, I can remove the albums completely and
> > > start empty and Digikam still crashes.
> > >
> > > Can anyone offer any help or ideas to sort this out, I really need
> > > Digikam working to manage my photos and don't want to have to wait
> > > until a major update before it runs again.
> >
> > As I wrote in a reply to your other mail about digikam crashing:
> >
> > I also updated to Ubuntu 10.04 (from 8.04, 8,10, 9.04, 9.10) and got the
> > same crashes as my regular user, but not as a new test-user. I fixed it
> > by deleting .gconf/system. This directory didn't exist in the $HOME of
> > the test-user.
> >
> I tried this too (as a consequence of your previous message), it
> doesn't work for me.  Anyway, why would running digikam as 'me' on
> another desktop work OK as this has my .gconf directory.
>

On looking again now I don't even *have* a ~/.gconf/system directory.

>
> > I found it out by trial-and-error, and just searching what was in my
> > normal user's homedir and not in the test user's. Also "strace" helped a
> > bit.
> >
> I've (as I said) spent many hours doing this with no good result.
>
> > I hope this works for you too, but please backup this dir just in case.
> >
> I will try it again just in case I missed something when I tried it
> the first time areound.
>
> --
> Chris Green

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[Chris Green]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:15:46PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
> makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
> Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
> from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).
>
On searching around some more in Google and looking at some of the
related bug reports it seems as if it could be that the problem is
related to Digikam using gstreamer rather than xine.

Is there a way to make Digikam use xine rather than gstreamer?

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[Chris Green]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:39:01PM +0100, Chris G wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 02:15:46PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
> > This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
> > makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
> > Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
> > from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).
> >
> On searching around some more in Google and looking at some of the
> related bug reports it seems as if it could be that the problem is
> related to Digikam using gstreamer rather than xine.
>
> Is there a way to make Digikam use xine rather than gstreamer?
>

Hey, eureka, that was it!  :-)

I installed phonon-backend-zine and then uninstalled
phonon-backend-gstreamer and now digikam doesn't crash! Hurrah!

I was pleasantly surprised that ubuntu's package manager let me do
this, I did first try uninstalling phonon-backend-gstreamer but that
wanted to uninstall all the dependencies (digikam and all its KDE
library dependencies).  But installing phonon-backend-zine first
allowed me to uninstall phonon-backend-gstreamer by itself.

I'm not at all sure why changing users/desktops affects this but no
matter, I have a reliable Digikam again.

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[Andreas Tono]

Am Montag, 6. September 2010 schrieb Gerben Roest:
> On 06-09-10 15:15, Chris G wrote:
> > This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly
> > what makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm
> > running Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a
> > later Digikam from the PPA repository but it acted just the
> > same).
I am running digiKam
Version 0.10.0
on KDE 4.3.5 (KDE 4.3.5) "release 0"
openSUSE 11.2 (i586)

Digikam crashed only while I was using the image manipulation  
function.
In the systray I have an icon showing the system load
If I changed the image and saved it and worked on too fast (system
load quite high) I had more crashes.
So I had an eye on the system load level and did the saving or next
operation of the file when system load was less 30%

Then I had nearly no crashes.

> >
> > It's obviously something quite specific and subtle as, for most
> > cases, Digikam runs OK, i.e. :-
> >
> >     If I login as another user and 'ssh -X -l chris localhost'
> > back to myself then digikam runs OK.
> >
> >     If I 'ssh -l someoneelse -X localhost' on my desktop and run
> >     digikam as that user then digikam runs OK.
> >
> > However running digikam as myself on my desktop crashes.  If I
> > remove most of my configuration (i.e.  remove all of my .xxxxxx
> > hidden files) then digikam will run as myself on my desktop.  The
> > trouble is there doesn't seem to be one specific bit of
> > configuration that makes Digikam crash.  I've spent hours adding
> > things back bit by bit to see if I can work out the problem but I
> > got all the way back to my configured desktop and Digikam worked,
> > then the next day after shutting down and powering up again it
> > was crashing.
> >
> > It's not the picture files, I can remove the albums completely
> > and start empty and Digikam still crashes.
> >
> > Can anyone offer any help or ideas to sort this out, I really
> > need Digikam working to manage my photos and don't want to have
> > to wait until a major update before it runs again.
>
> As I wrote in a reply to your other mail about digikam crashing:
>
> I also updated to Ubuntu 10.04 (from 8.04, 8,10, 9.04, 9.10) and
>  got the same crashes as my regular user, but not as a new
>  test-user. I fixed it by deleting .gconf/system. This directory
>  didn't exist in the $HOME of the test-user.
>
> I found it out by trial-and-error, and just searching what was in
>  my normal user's homedir and not in the test user's. Also "strace"
>  helped a bit.
>
> I hope this works for you too, but please backup this dir just in
>  case.
>
> Gerben
>

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