[Digikam-devel] Strange crashes

[Matthias Welwarsky]

On Thursday 21 May 2009 18:40:29 Marcel Wiesweg wrote:
> > Have you deleted / renamed your ~/.thumbnails folder?
> > Already generated thumbnails from the past (before the KDE::rename
> > patches) are working perfectly fine here, too.
> >
> > What happens when you rename the thumbnails folder so that all thumbs are
> > really generated new?
> >
> > I always get
> > digikam(7372)/digikam (core) Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::load: Cannot
> > rename thumb file (
> > "/tmp/kde-andi/415adced8a4644d971d5c6706c2abc90-digikam- wS7372.png" )
> > digikam(7372)/digikam (core) Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::load: to (
> > "/home/andi/.thumbnails/large/415adced8a4644d971d5c6706c2abc90.png" )...
> >
> > My /tmp is on my root partition (ext4), /home is reiserfs.
> > I also changed /tmp to be the tmpfs (so that it is a ramdisk actually),
> > but still the same error.
>
> I can confirm this. New thumbnails are not stored. The error messages as
> above appear. /tmp is on a different partition than /home, both ext4.

Ah. So the rename is not working across file systems :-) Maybe because it uses 
rename(2)? Take a look at the man page.