Debugging digikam

[Maik Qualmann]

I gather from the log that the database configuration (dbconfig.xml) is not 
found. I assume they install digiKam locally with bootstrap.local. Then you 
still have to export environment variables, see the section on this in 
Mainpage.dox.

Maik

Am Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2023, 15:36:53 CET schrieb Martin Marmsoler:
> The error message I get is: Could not open the configuration file <b></b>.
> This file is installed with the digikam application and is absolutely
> required to run digikam. Please check your installation.
> 
> BR,
> Martin
> 
> Am Mi., 18. Jan. 2023 um 15:24 Uhr schrieb Martin Marmsoler <
> 
> martin.marmsoler at gmail.com>:
> > Hi Maik,
> > 
> > thanks for the response. I uninstalled digikam for now to not have those
> > plugins installed. Now it fails during initialization of the database in
> > main.cpp:
> > 
> > AlbumManager::instance()->setDatabase(params, !commandLineDBPath.isNull(),
> > firstAlbumPath)
> > returns false because of "ScanController::AbortImmediately"
> > 
> > Lokale Variablen
> > aboutData @0x7fffffffe1b8 KAboutData
> > app @0x7fffffffe210 QApplication
> > argc 1 int
> > argv <ein Element> char **
> > commandLineDBPath "" QString
> > config @0x7fffffffe1d0 KSharedConfig::Ptr
> > digikam 0x0 Digikam::DigikamApp*
> > firstAlbumPath "" QString
> > group @0x7fffffffe220 KConfigGroup
> > iconTheme "" QString
> > mainConfig @0x7fffffffe230 KConfigGroup
> > params @0x7fffffffe280 Digikam::DbEngineParameters
> > connectOptions "" QString
> > databaseNameCore "/home/$USER/Dokumente/Festplatte/database/digikam4.db"
> > QString
> > databaseNameFace
> > "/home/$USER/Dokumente/Festplatte/database/recognition.db" QString
> > databaseNameSimilarity
> > "/home/$USER/Dokumente/Festplatte/database/similarity.db" QString
> > databaseNameThumbnails
> > "/home/$USER/Dokumente/Festplatte/database/thumbnails-digikam.db" QString
> > databaseType "QSQLITE" QString
> > hostName "" QString
> > internalServer false bool
> > internalServerDBPath "" QString
> > internalServerMysqlAdminCmd "" QString
> > internalServerMysqlInitCmd "" QString
> > internalServerMysqlServCmd "" QString
> > password "" QString
> > port -1 int
> > userName "" QString
> > walMode false bool
> > parser @0x7fffffffe1c0 QCommandLineParser
> > ret -1076182377 int
> > system @0x7fffffffe200 Digikam::SystemSettings
> > version "8.0.0-beta1" QString
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> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Martin
> > 
> > Am Mo., 16. Jan. 2023 um 19:51 Uhr schrieb Maik Qualmann <
> > 
> > metzpinguin at gmail.com>:
> >> You still have "old" plugins in the directory. A possible path is
> >> "/usr/lib64/
> >> qt5/plugins/digikam/". Check the files in the folders based on the date,
> >> which
> >> plugins were not last updated and delete them. Due to the API change
> >> (help doc
> >> added), loading the "old" plugins crashes.
> >> 
> >> Maik
> >> 
> >> Am Montag, 16. Januar 2023, 17:28:35 CET schrieb Martin Marmsoler:
> >> > Hello,
> >> > 
> >> > I am trying currently to debug digikam. So far building worked fine and
> >> > also debugging works.
> >> > (For setup I used bootstrap.local)
> >> > But when the application opens, it fails with a segmentation fault:
> >> > 
> >> > 3 QString::toUtf8() const &                     qstring.h           684
> >> > 0x7ffff5e630a2
> >> > 4 KConfigGroup::readEntry<bool>                 kconfiggroup.h      260
> >> > 0x7ffff5e6331f
> >> > 5 Digikam::DPluginLoader::Private::appendPlugin dpluginloader_p.cpp 161
> >> > 0x7ffff61f2b8c
> >> > 6 Digikam::DPluginLoader::Private::loadPlugins  dpluginloader_p.cpp 223
> >> > 0x7ffff61f34cb
> >> > 7 Digikam::DPluginLoader::init                  dpluginloader.cpp   62
> >> > 
> >> >  0x7ffff61ef768
> >> > 
> >> > 8 Digikam::DigikamApp::DigikamApp               digikamapp.cpp      137
> >> > 0x7ffff775a811
> >> > 9 main                                          main.cpp            402
> >> > 0x55555555a712
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > commit id: d3e3a6c2e986bd35e47654824d62345374f67c5e (master 15.01.2023)
> >> > 
> >> > Do you have an idea why it crashes?
> >> > 
> >> > BR,
> >> > Martin