[Digikam-users] Strange behaviour when writing metadata to images

[Robert Zeller]

"In other word, move Rygel program to the trash and let digiKam work properly..."

That's what I did already ! I am now using minidlna as a UPNP-server instead of Rygel. With minidlna there is no interference problem with DK !

Robert Zeller

On 06/16/2014 02:34 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> See this upstream report here :
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=333565
>
> To resume : if Rygel program is run in background when digiKam DB
> opened, this one will be locked and digiKam will only access to DB in
> read only mode.
>
> In other word, move Rygel program to the trash and let digiKam work properly...
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2014-06-11 22:30 GMT+02:00 Robert Zeller <robert.zeller at robert-zeller.org>:
>> I just found out that obviously a program with the name "rygel", which is a
>> UPNP/DLNA server running under Linux, is causing the problem. It looks like
>> rygel somehow interferes with DK. When I kill rygel on my system, DK does no
>> longer delete images after writing exif-data into the image. Has anybody an
>> explanation for this strange interference?
>>
>>
>>
>> On 06/11/2014 12:50 PM, Robert Zeller wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am running DK 4.0.0 on openSUSE 13.1.
>> I am encountering some very strange behavior when writing metadata to
>> images:
>>
>> 1. All my images contain GPS-information; this information gets
>> displayed in the EXIF sidebar for some of the images, for others not,
>> although I can see the GPS-information. when clicking on image ->
>> Geolocation.
>>
>> 2. When writing exif information to the image (jpgs), frequently - but
>> not always -  it happens that the image gets completely deleted from the
>> directory. This is true only when in the "Reading and Writing Metadata"
>> settings "Write to image and xmp sidecar" is activated. When writing
>> only to the xmp-sidecar images stay there. This means images get deleted
>> when writing new Exif-data into the image. This is most annoying if you
>> don't have a backup of your images.
>>
>> I am using the DK version that is being distributed together with
>> openSUSE 13.1; but I also saw this behavior on a version that I compiled
>> myself.
>> Has anybody any clue what is wrong?
>>
>>
>>
>>
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