[Digikam-users] Possible database corruption?

[Jens Nie]

OK. Time for me to join in. I have basically the same problem.

I have recently experimented with a brand new Leica M9 a friend of mine - 
lucky him - owns since a couple of days now, and was quite confused that i was 
not able to view the images (dng) within digikam. Must be something wrong with 
the raw part of digikam or the libkdcraw or related i guess. However that 
motivated me to compile the latest beta4 sources of digikam, as i did not find 
any binaries for opensuse 11.1 available. Before compiling i removed any 
digikam and kipi-plugin package in order to have the system as clean as 
possible.Compilation worked like a charm. However digikam showed no thumbnails 
for the images after the next start of the application. Moreover digikam does 
not seem to find any plugins now, which i compiled and installed as well (I 
really like the opengl viewer for going through the images as it is really 
fast. Nearly as fast as the good ole kuickshow application we had in KDE3, 
which was damn fast actually. Such a pitty it's no longer available for KDE4.)

But back to this. 

So i googled a bit on this and found, that digikam once had this problem in 
the past already. I followed the both tipps removing the marble packages and 
rebuilding the thumbnails, which took some hours with my 30.000+ images. All 
in all with no success. No thumbnails.

Now i checked with pgrep if the slaves are available: They are not. So i 
followed the kbuildsycoca4 thing, but digikam still does not show any 
thumbnails.

Any more tipps? I have so many new photos to explore, and i really can't wait 
to see them ;-)

For the protocol: I use the KDE 4.3.1 packages provided by the opensuse build 
service for opensuse 11.1 

On Sunday 04 October 2009 20:32:51 Andi Clemens wrote:
> And make sure the slaves are running. Type
>
> pgrep -l digi
>
> while digiKam is running.
> It should print something like
>
> kio_digikamalbum
> kio_digikamtags
>
> etc.
>
> Andi
>
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