<div dir="ltr">I had the same problem with digiKam V5.1 und V5.2 on Window 10. From one day to another, it didn't start up anymore.<div>The process was running, but stale. The digiKam window didn't show up.</div><div><br><div>Below is what I did to solve the problem. I posted it on Sept. 28th to this mailing list.<div><br></div><div><div><div dir="ltr">Eduard Zalar <<a href="mailto:eduard@zalar.de">eduard@zalar.de</a>> schrieb am Mi., 28. Sep. 2016 um 23:19 Uhr:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Hello,<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">finally, I solved my "digiKam is not starting" problem by:</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Uninstalling digiKam V5.2.</div><div class="gmail_msg">Deleting each and every digiKam related file which I found on my disk after uninstalling.</div><div class="gmail_msg">Rebooting.</div><div class="gmail_msg">Installing digiKam V5.2 and stepping again through the initial configuration.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Now, it works well.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">With best regards</div><div class="gmail_msg">Eddie</div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><br class="inbox-inbox-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></blockquote></div><div><br>My suspicion is that there are some problems with migration of digiKam settings from V4.x, or from V5.1.</div><div>But this is just a suspicion and this problem might disappear in the future as more and more digiKam user work with V5.x.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Andrey Goreev <<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>> schrieb am Do., 5. Jan. 2017 um 23:14 Uhr:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Only the one that comes with Windows 10 now. I think it is called Windows Defender.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">-------- Original message --------</div><div class="gmail_msg">From: Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> </div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Date: 2017-01-05 3:11 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div class="gmail_msg">To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <<a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">digikam-users@kde.org</a>> </div><div class="gmail_msg">Subject: Re: Digikam 5.4.0 won't start on Windows </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">yes, but the trace is very similar.<div class="gmail_msg">The problem is about messages : some errors do not come from digiKam as : </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"</span><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">or :</div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">[920] onecoreuap\base\appmodel\</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">execmodel\modern\</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">lifetimemanager\</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">appxexecutionutil.cpp(41)\</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">modernexecserver.dll!</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">00007FFFF2836690: (caller: 00007FFFF280AD35) ReturnHr(10308) tid(21c0) 80070005 Access is denied. </span><br style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">[6088] Suspending</span><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_msg">In first step i thinking about an anti virus side effect. Do you have anything like this running on your computer.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">2017-01-05 23:07 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_msg">I am not sure what that file is.<div class="gmail_msg">I have never uploaded any GPX files. I haven't been writing any metadata to RAW files either.</div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_5252860614612853519h5 gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">-------- Original message --------</div><div class="gmail_msg">From: Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> </div><div class="gmail_msg">Date: 2017-01-05 2:34 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div class="gmail_msg">To: digiKam - Home Manage your photographs as a professional with the power of open source <<a href="mailto:digikam-users@kde.org" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">digikam-users@kde.org</a>> </div><div class="gmail_msg">Subject: Re: Digikam 5.4.0 won't start on Windows </div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-</span><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"</span><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">and </span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">You have a very similar report here :</span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364035" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364035</a></span><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></span></div><div class="gmail_msg"><span style="font-size:12.8px" class="gmail_msg">Gilles Caulier</span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">2017-01-05 20:52 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">[6136] registerRenderers...........<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: AlbumWatch use QFileSystemWatcher<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Database Parameters:<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Type: "QSQLITE"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] DB Core Name: "D:/Family Pictures/digikam4.db"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] DB Thumbs Name: "D:/Family Pictures/thumbnails-digikam.db"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] DB Face Name: "D:/Family Pictures/recognition.db"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Connect Options: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Host Name: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Host port: -1<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Internal Server: false<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Internal Server Path: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Internal Server Serv Cmd: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Internal Server Init Cmd: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Username: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Password: ""<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] <br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.dbengine: Loading SQL code from config file "C:/Program Files/digiKam/data/digikam/database/dbconfig.xml"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.dbengine: Checking XML version ID => expected: 3 found: 3<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.coredb: Core database: running schema update<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.coredb: Core database: have a structure version 8<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.coredb: Core database: makeUpdates 8 to 8<br class="gmail_msg">[920] onecore\ds\security\umstartup\usermgr\cli\usermgrcli.cxx(165)\usermgrcli.dll!00007FF805AB11F6: (caller: 00007FFFF28365AF) ReturnHr(6776) tid(21c0) 80070005 Access is denied. <br class="gmail_msg">[920] onecoreuap\base\appmodel\execmodel\modern\lifetimemanager\appxexecutionutil.cpp(41)\modernexecserver.dll!00007FFFF2836690: (caller: 00007FFFF280AD35) ReturnHr(10308) tid(21c0) 80070005 Access is denied. <br class="gmail_msg">[6088] Suspending<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.database: Creating new Location "/Family Pictures UNSORTED YET" uuid "volumeid:?uuid=4234becd"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.database: location for "D:/Family Pictures UNSORTED YET" is available true<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] KMemoryInfo: Platform identified : "WINDOWS"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] KMemoryInfo: TotalRam: 8490823680<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Allowing a cache size of 200 MB<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] Failed to query "\\\\?\\acpi#pnp0c0a#2#{72631e54-78a4-11d0-bcf7-00aa00b7b32a}" reason: "The system cannot find the file specified. 2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.thumbsdb: ThumbDB SelectThumbnailSetting val ret = 0<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.thumbsdb: ThumbDB SelectThumbnailSetting val ret = 0<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.thumbsdb: Thumbs database: have a structure version "3"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Thumbnails database ready for use<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Switch to widget style: "Fusion"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.dimg: ()<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Camera XML data: "D:/Users/user/AppData/Local/digikam/cameras.xml"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.facedb: FaceDB SelectFaceSetting val ret = 0<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.facedb: FaceDB SelectFaceSetting val ret = 0<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.facedb: Face database: have a structure version "2"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.facesengine: Face database ready for use<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Face PipeLine: add database writer<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Face PipeLine: add faces trainer<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.facesengine: Face database ready for use<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Face PipeLine: add database writer<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Face PipeLine: add faces trainer<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.geoiface: "setting backend marble"<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.general: Stacked View Mode : 0<br class="gmail_msg">[6136] digikam.geoiface: "setting backend marble"<br class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br clear="all" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_5252860614612853519m_-6704939950404002951m_-2012002378141756501gmail_signature gmail_msg" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Best regards, <br class="gmail_msg">Andrey Goreev</div></div><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="m_5252860614612853519m_-6704939950404002951h5 gmail_msg">
<br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Gilles Caulier <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">What do you see as debug traces while running DebugView from Microsoft when you start digiKam. Look details here :<div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><a href="https://www.digikam.org/contrib" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">https://www.digikam.org/contrib</a><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></div><div class="gmail_msg">Gilles Caulier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">2017-01-05 19:59 GMT+01:00 Andrey Goreev <span dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><<a href="mailto:aegoreev@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">aegoreev@gmail.com</a>></span>:<br class="gmail_msg"><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">Digikam won't start anymore on my windows 10 64 bit machine. I can see the process running in task manager but the window never appears. It is weird because it was working couple of days ago and I don't think I even rebooted the machine. Is it a well known iisue? I guess it is an issue with 64 bit version again.<br class="gmail_msg"></div>Thanks<span class="m_5252860614612853519m_-6704939950404002951m_-2012002378141756501m_3574192966715796506HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg"><br class="gmail_msg"></font></span></div><span class="m_5252860614612853519m_-6704939950404002951m_-2012002378141756501m_3574192966715796506HOEnZb gmail_msg"><font color="#888888" class="gmail_msg">Andrey<br class="gmail_msg"></font></span></div>
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