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

[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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