[Digikam-devel] Strange crashes

[Matthias Welwarsky]

On Thursday 21 May 2009 19:16:46 Matthias Welwarsky wrote:
> 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.

Yup, that's it. KDE_rename is just "#define KDE_rename ::rename". That one 
cannot safely be used to move files around.

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