[Digikam-users] Even Digikam 1.4 doesn't run on my Xubuntu 10.04 system - help!

[Chris G]

On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 03:50:02PM +0200, Gerben Roest wrote:
> On 06-09-10 15:15, Chris G wrote:
> > This is very frustrating, I've been trying to work out exactly what
> > makes Digikam crash on my system without much luck.  I'm running
> > Digikam 1.2 on xubuntu 10.04 (I have actually tried a later Digikam
> > from the PPA repository but it acted just the same).
> > 
> > It's obviously something quite specific and subtle as, for most cases,
> > Digikam runs OK, i.e. :-
> > 
> >     If I login as another user and 'ssh -X -l chris localhost' back to
> >     myself then digikam runs OK.
> > 
> >     If I 'ssh -l someoneelse -X localhost' on my desktop and run
> >     digikam as that user then digikam runs OK.
> > 
> > However running digikam as myself on my desktop crashes.  If I remove
> > most of my configuration (i.e.  remove all of my .xxxxxx hidden files)
> > then digikam will run as myself on my desktop.  The trouble is there
> > doesn't seem to be one specific bit of configuration that makes
> > Digikam crash.  I've spent hours adding things back bit by bit to see
> > if I can work out the problem but I got all the way back to my
> > configured desktop and Digikam worked, then the next day after
> > shutting down and powering up again it was crashing.
> > 
> > It's not the picture files, I can remove the albums completely and
> > start empty and Digikam still crashes.
> > 
> > Can anyone offer any help or ideas to sort this out, I really need
> > Digikam working to manage my photos and don't want to have to wait
> > until a major update before it runs again.
> 
> As I wrote in a reply to your other mail about digikam crashing:
> 
> I also updated to Ubuntu 10.04 (from 8.04, 8,10, 9.04, 9.10) and got the
> same crashes as my regular user, but not as a new test-user. I fixed it
> by deleting .gconf/system. This directory didn't exist in the $HOME of
> the test-user.
> 
I tried this too (as a consequence of your previous message), it
doesn't work for me.  Anyway, why would running digikam as 'me' on
another desktop work OK as this has my .gconf directory.


> I found it out by trial-and-error, and just searching what was in my
> normal user's homedir and not in the test user's. Also "strace" helped a
> bit.
> 
I've (as I said) spent many hours doing this with no good result.

> I hope this works for you too, but please backup this dir just in case.
> 
I will try it again just in case I missed something when I tried it
the first time areound.

-- 
Chris Green