yes, it's better (:=))).<br><br>Gilles<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/10 Andi Clemens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andi.clemens@gmx.net">andi.clemens@gmx.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Since nobody seems to read this, I will create a B.K.O entry now...<br>
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On Friday 30 January 2009 18:09:52 Andi Clemens wrote:<br>
> I tested this on a fresh virtual machine, and it also crashes this machine.<br>
> Can someone please please please test this issue, or at least comment on<br>
> this? We can not ship digiKam in this state, you are not able to work with<br>
> your system after switching to a new database.<br>
><br>
> Andi<br>
><br>
> On Wednesday 17 December 2008 11:05:22 Andi Clemens wrote:<br>
> > Can nobody confirm this?<br>
> > I just tested it again and the computer gets stuck again, I can not<br>
> > confirm this with 0.9.4.<br>
> > Please test this, some people use more than one collection in digiKam<br>
> > 0.9.x and they might run in serious problems. It makes your computer<br>
> > absolutely instable and I don't think this is good :-)<br>
> ><br>
> > To reproduce:<br>
> > 1. make a backup, just for security reasons<br>
> > 2. get / compile latest digiKam for KDE3<br>
> > 3. create a new folder somewhere in your system (not under the current<br>
> > album library path) and copy some images to it<br>
> > 4. start digiKam and enter this folder as your new album library path.<br>
> > 5. After digiKam has finished importing, close it.<br>
> > 6. restart digiKam, it gets stuck while displaying "Updating items<br>
> > without a date" in the splashscreen.<br>
> > 7. restart your computer (because killing the slaves or digiKam doesn't<br>
> > work).<br>
> ><br>
> > If only one other person can confirm this, we need to fix this<br>
> > immediately, this is a serious problem and I never seen such a behavior<br>
> > from a normal desktop application (at least killing the process always<br>
> > worked for me, but in this case it isn't).<br>
> > We can't deliver a digiKam stable version that acts in this way.<br>
> ><br>
> > Andi<br>
> ><br>
> > On Saturday 13 December 2008 11:38:12 Andi Clemens wrote:<br>
> > > What is also very bad in this case:<br>
> > > When shutting down, the kernel is not able to umount /home, / etc,<br>
> > > because digiKam is still running. This leads to a bad filesystem on<br>
> > > reboot with a lot of errors that luckily could be fixed all the time.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > It is no general problem, my system runs fine, it always appears when I<br>
> > > switch the collection in digiKam_KDE3.<br>
> > ><br>
> > > Andi<br>
> > ><br>
> > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 11:32:55 Andi Clemens wrote:<br>
> > > > Hi,<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > I just discovered a weird bug with the KDE3 version of digiKam.<br>
> > > > I have two different databases (album root paths) and was able to<br>
> > > > switch between perfectly in the past. But now digiKam hangs when<br>
> > > > switching. The splashscreen shows "Updating items without a date" and<br>
> > > > that's it.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > The weird part comes now: I can't kill it. All kioslaves refuse to<br>
> > > > die, digiKam refuses to kill, even as root. I need to restart the<br>
> > > > whole system!<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Switching to INIT1 doesn't help either. When shutting down, INIT<br>
> > > > sends KILL to all remaining processes, even this doesn't work. It<br>
> > > > hangs!! At this moment I turn off power because most of the data<br>
> > > > should be written from RAM to disk.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > What is that? I've never seen that you are not able to kill a<br>
> > > > process, at least root always was able to do that.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Unfortunately there are no backtraces, debug messages etc that would<br>
> > > > help.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Can anyone confirm this?<br>
> > > > If so, this is a serious probelm!!<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > Andi<br>
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