[Digikam-devel] [digikam] [Bug 303218] digikam import crashes when you select video files

[Jim Shipman]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=303218

Jim Shipman <JimShip at sbcglobal.net> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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           Platform|Fedora RPMs                 |Compiled Sources
            Version|3.5.0                       |4.0.0

--- Comment #6 from Jim Shipman <JimShip at sbcglobal.net> ---
This crash now happens after import while digikam is scanning for metadata in
the background.  Exiv2 crashes whenever it runs into a file that it doesn't
understand and this brings digikam down with it.

I reported this to the exiv2 bug tracker and they said that M2TS (MTS) video
files were not suppoted by exiv2 and digikam should not have called exiv2 for
unsupported file types.  They put my bug in as a "feature request" with low
priority.

Right now I can't run digikam because right after it starts (idle to me, but
scanning metadata in the background) it crashes because of exiv2.

digikam would be much more robust if it would trap these kind of exceptions and
recover instead of simply crashing.  You will always be vulnerable to crashes
by your dependencies unless you trap them and handle them yourself.

Jim Shipman

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