[Digikam-devel] Strange crashes

[Gilles Caulier]

2009/5/21 Matthias Welwarsky <matze at welwarsky.de>:
> 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.
>

Well, why it's work with dolphin and konqueror ?

Gilles

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