Extremely irritating error message

[Jim Householder]

I find it *very* annoying when a program displays an error message which
does not say what the problem is.

I'm getting such messages with digiKam 2.5.0.

I start digiKam as usual but it cannot access its database.  No
indication why!

I try to create a new database, and get a message saying:

"It was not possible to add a collection for the following paths"

Again, no indication why.  How am I to fix the problem if I don't know
what it is?

These problems are occurring with a collection that I've been using for
years.
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[tosca]

And if you start it from a terminal, don't you get more meaningful messages?

Marie-Noëlle

2012/6/19 Jim Householder <[hidden email]>

I find it *very* annoying when a program displays an error message which does not say what the problem is.

I'm getting such messages with digiKam 2.5.0.

I start digiKam as usual but it cannot access its database.  No indication why!

I try to create a new database, and get a message saying:

"It was not possible to add a collection for the following paths"

Again, no indication why.  How am I to fix the problem if I don't know what it is?

These problems are occurring with a collection that I've been using for years.
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[Jim Householder]

On 06/19/12 13:21, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> And if you start it from a terminal, don't you get more meaningful messages?
>
Not much, unless "-1" from sqlite means something other than "an error
occurred".  I guess if sqlite does not supply meaningful information
digiKam cannot forward it.
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[Brian Morrison]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 22:41:41 +0800
Jim Householder <[hidden email]> wrote:

> On 06/19/12 13:21, Marie-Noëlle Augendre wrote:
> > And if you start it from a terminal, don't you get more meaningful
> > messages?
> >
> Not much, unless "-1" from sqlite means something other than "an
> error occurred".  I guess if sqlite does not supply meaningful
> information digiKam cannot forward it.

It might be that stderr is not being sent to stdout. Is there any sort
of sql log file to which something more meaningful is being sent?

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[timothyausten]

I have this problem too. I see that this post is nearly a year old, but has there been any resolution to this?

[Remco Viëtor]

On Sunday 10 March 2013 01:14:18 timothyausten wrote:
> I have this problem too. I see that this post is nearly a year old, but
has
> there been any resolution to this?
>
Isn't that more something to check on the bugs list? or use
http://www.digikam.org/support as a starting point.

Note that teh current version of Digikam is 3.0

Remco
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[timothyausten]

I see the problem. I am using Debian "Legacy Linux" Wheezy, which has digiKam at version 2.6. Thank you for your help. :)