[digiKam-users] Help getting digiKam to load

[Garth Kay-Hards]

Hello

I have a 64bit machine and use OpenSuse with Gnome and have used digiKam a lot in past versions of my OS, but since I went onto OpenSuse Leap 41.3 I could not get digiKam to load the database and my photos. I gave up for some time and used the Windows version (which I don't like as much as it doesn't handle batch resizing like the Linux version).

I thought I'd just wait till the new release of Leap 15.0 was out and reload it then.  Well I have a brand new install of Leap 15.0 and I installed digiKam without any problems. It installed as normal which includes installing a whole heap of KDE software. But when I try to load the program it gets to the point of trying to load the database and hangs up with the message - "Error while opening the database. digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the database." It just stops there.

I thought perhaps SQlite hadn't been loaded and went to the Software manager where I saw that libsqlite3-0 was installed. I scrolled down and installed sqlite3 to see if it would help, but no it didn't.

I need someone's help please as I really love this photo editor.

Regards

Garth

[Gilles Caulier-4]

Hi,

Can you reproduce the problem using the digiKam Linux AppImage bundle, which contains all the necessary dependencies to run without to use the system library. This can identify a packaging problem with your system.

Else, a console trace at digiKam startup can help to identify the source of the problem.

Gilles Caulier

2018-05-30 2:05 GMT+02:00 Garth Kay-Hards <[hidden email]>:

Hello

I have a 64bit machine and use OpenSuse with Gnome and have used digiKam a lot in past versions of my OS, but since I went onto OpenSuse Leap 41.3 I could not get digiKam to load the database and my photos. I gave up for some time and used the Windows version (which I don't like as much as it doesn't handle batch resizing like the Linux version).

I thought I'd just wait till the new release of Leap 15.0 was out and reload it then.  Well I have a brand new install of Leap 15.0 and I installed digiKam without any problems. It installed as normal which includes installing a whole heap of KDE software. But when I try to load the program it gets to the point of trying to load the database and hangs up with the message - "Error while opening the database. digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the database." It just stops there.

I thought perhaps SQlite hadn't been loaded and went to the Software manager where I saw that libsqlite3-0 was installed. I scrolled down and installed sqlite3 to see if it would help, but no it didn't.

I need someone's help please as I really love this photo editor.

Regards

Garth

[Garth Kay-Hards]

Hi Gilles.  

Can you please outline what I need to do.  I guess I must 1st get Yast to uninstall the package.

 I'll follow what procedure you give me 

Regards

Garth 

On Wed, 30 May 2018 2:38 pm Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

Can you reproduce the problem using the digiKam Linux AppImage bundle, which contains all the necessary dependencies to run without to use the system library. This can identify a packaging problem with your system.

Else, a console trace at digiKam startup can help to identify the source of the problem.

Gilles Caulier

2018-05-30 2:05 GMT+02:00 Garth Kay-Hards <[hidden email]>:

Hello

I have a 64bit machine and use OpenSuse with Gnome and have used digiKam a lot in past versions of my OS, but since I went onto OpenSuse Leap 41.3 I could not get digiKam to load the database and my photos. I gave up for some time and used the Windows version (which I don't like as much as it doesn't handle batch resizing like the Linux version).

I thought I'd just wait till the new release of Leap 15.0 was out and reload it then.  Well I have a brand new install of Leap 15.0 and I installed digiKam without any problems. It installed as normal which includes installing a whole heap of KDE software. But when I try to load the program it gets to the point of trying to load the database and hangs up with the message - "Error while opening the database. digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the database." It just stops there.

I thought perhaps SQlite hadn't been loaded and went to the Software manager where I saw that libsqlite3-0 was installed. I scrolled down and installed sqlite3 to see if it would help, but no it didn't.

I need someone's help please as I really love this photo editor.

Regards

Garth

[Gilles Caulier-4]

1/ upload the current AppImage 6.0.0 pre-release :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

2/ To start AppImage, look this document :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/README.md

3/ The debug trace will appear on the console. We need this trace to investigate...

Gilles Caulier

2018-05-30 6:43 GMT+02:00 Garth Kay-Hards <[hidden email]>:

Hi Gilles.  

Can you please outline what I need to do.  I guess I must 1st get Yast to uninstall the package.

 I'll follow what procedure you give me 

Regards

Garth 

On Wed, 30 May 2018 2:38 pm Gilles Caulier <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

Can you reproduce the problem using the digiKam Linux AppImage bundle, which contains all the necessary dependencies to run without to use the system library. This can identify a packaging problem with your system.

Else, a console trace at digiKam startup can help to identify the source of the problem.

Gilles Caulier

2018-05-30 2:05 GMT+02:00 Garth Kay-Hards <[hidden email]>:

Hello

I have a 64bit machine and use OpenSuse with Gnome and have used digiKam a lot in past versions of my OS, but since I went onto OpenSuse Leap 41.3 I could not get digiKam to load the database and my photos. I gave up for some time and used the Windows version (which I don't like as much as it doesn't handle batch resizing like the Linux version).

I thought I'd just wait till the new release of Leap 15.0 was out and reload it then.  Well I have a brand new install of Leap 15.0 and I installed digiKam without any problems. It installed as normal which includes installing a whole heap of KDE software. But when I try to load the program it gets to the point of trying to load the database and hangs up with the message - "Error while opening the database. digiKam will try to automatically reconnect to the database." It just stops there.

I thought perhaps SQlite hadn't been loaded and went to the Software manager where I saw that libsqlite3-0 was installed. I scrolled down and installed sqlite3 to see if it would help, but no it didn't.

I need someone's help please as I really love this photo editor.

Regards

Garth