[Digikam-devel] [Bug 134999] crash in exiv2 when searching for new images

[Mikael Lammentausta]

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------- Additional Comments From mikael.lammentausta student savonia-amk fi  2006-12-04 10:03 -------
Daniel, it seems you have the same problem. I haven't had the time yet to do a closer investigation (I really should since this should be fixed in 0.9 final in late December). 

What I know now: 
 - my filesystem (and glibc libraries) are ISO8859-1x. digiKam always crashes when it tries to scan folders that have non-ASCII characters.
 - it is not always the same folders that are scanned during the crash.
 - after the crash, 'free' function is not called and the kernel does not clear up the malloc'ed memory. I may lose several megabytes of free RAM with a single crash.
 - the crashes come quicker when there is less free RAM
 - the pictures than with Canon Ixus and transferred in Windows (then moved to Linux FS) may be a source of one problem
 - some pictures than with Canon Axx cameras and transferred via digiKam (all  versions since 0.8) are a cause for some malformed queries.