[Digikam-devel] Weird digikam_KDE3 bug

[Andi Clemens]

What is also very bad in this case:
When shutting down, the kernel is not able to umount /home, / etc, because 
digiKam is still running. This leads to a bad filesystem on reboot with a lot 
of errors that luckily could be fixed all the time.

It is no general problem, my system runs fine, it always appears when I switch 
the collection in digiKam_KDE3.

Andi

On Saturday 13 December 2008 11:32:55 Andi Clemens wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just discovered a weird bug with the KDE3 version of digiKam.
> I have two different databases (album root paths) and was able to switch
> between perfectly in the past. But now digiKam hangs when switching.
> The splashscreen shows "Updating items without a date" and that's it.
>
> The weird part comes now: I can't kill it. All kioslaves refuse to die,
> digiKam refuses to kill, even as root. I need to restart the whole system!
>
> Switching to INIT1 doesn't help either. When shutting down, INIT sends KILL
> to all remaining processes, even this doesn't work. It hangs!! At this
> moment I turn off power because most of the data should be written from RAM
> to disk.
>
> What is that? I've never seen that you are not able to kill a process, at
> least root always was able to do that.
>
> Unfortunately there are no backtraces, debug messages etc that would help.
>
> Can anyone confirm this?
> If so, this is a serious probelm!!
>
> Andi
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