[Digikam-devel] Memory corruption in svn head

[Craig Howard]

On Tuesday 06 September 2005 15:55, you wrote:
> hum perhaps your database file is corrupted. Witch messages you have when
> you start digikam from a console ?

[snip]
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_WhiteBalance
digikam: ImagePlugin_BlurFX plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_BlurFX
digikam: ImagePlugin_Despeckle plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_Despeckle
digikam: ImagePlugin_AntiVignetting plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_AntiVignetting
digikam: ImagePlugin_AdjustCurves plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_AdjustCurves
digikam: ImagePlugin_FreeRotation plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_FreeRotation
digikam: ImagePlugin_Perspective plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_Perspective
digikam: ImagePlugin_ChannelMixer plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_ChannelMixer
digikam: ImagePlugin_Charcoal plugin loaded
digikam: ImagePluginLoader: Loaded plugin ImagePlugin_Charcoal
*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x081651b0 ***
zsh: alarm      digikam

Not very descriptive, is it?

> > The next step is probably to delete the .db files and try regenerating
> > them, but that will make me lose my tags won't it?
>
> yes. make a backup of digikam3.db file before (:=)))

Still crashed.  This time I was able to click on a few things first, but I
 got the same console output.

I updated to head last night.
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Craig Howard