[Digikam-devel] Weird digikam_KDE3 bug

[Gilles Caulier]

yes, it's better (:=))).

Gilles

2009/2/10 Andi Clemens <andi.clemens at gmx.net>

> Since nobody seems to read this, I will create a B.K.O entry now...
>
> On Friday 30 January 2009 18:09:52 Andi Clemens wrote:
> > I tested this on a fresh virtual machine, and it also crashes this
> machine.
> > Can someone please please please test this issue, or at least comment on
> > this? We can not ship digiKam in this state, you are not able to work
> with
> > your system after switching to a new database.
> >
> > Andi
> >
> > On Wednesday 17 December 2008 11:05:22 Andi Clemens wrote:
> > > Can nobody confirm this?
> > > I just tested it again and the computer gets stuck again, I can not
> > > confirm this with 0.9.4.
> > > Please test this, some people use more than one collection in digiKam
> > > 0.9.x and they might run in serious problems. It makes your computer
> > > absolutely instable and I don't think this is good :-)
> > >
> > > To reproduce:
> > > 1. make a backup, just for security reasons
> > > 2. get / compile latest digiKam for KDE3
> > > 3. create a new folder somewhere in your system (not under the current
> > > album library path) and copy some images to it
> > > 4. start digiKam and enter this folder as your new album library path.
> > > 5. After digiKam has finished importing, close it.
> > > 6. restart digiKam, it gets stuck while displaying "Updating items
> > > without a date" in the splashscreen.
> > > 7. restart your computer (because killing the slaves or digiKam doesn't
> > > work).
> > >
> > > If only one other person can confirm this, we need to fix this
> > > immediately, this is a serious problem and I never seen such a behavior
> > > from a normal desktop application (at least killing the process always
> > > worked for me, but in this case it isn't).
> > > We can't deliver a digiKam stable version that acts in this way.
> > >
> > > Andi
> > >
> > > On Saturday 13 December 2008 11:38:12 Andi Clemens wrote:
> > > > 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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