[Digikam-users] [Feature Request] Catch crashes in third party subsystems and handle them inside digikam

[Gilles Caulier]

About Sqlite, A upstream patches have been applied in top level, but
not yet applied to all distribution. See the long story in this bug
report :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=329697

About Exiv2, library must be patched. It's not yet done.

Gilles Caulier

2014-05-24 4:49 GMT+02:00 James R. Shipman <JimShip at sbcglobal.net>:
> Digikam as currently designed is vulnerable to crashes in third party
> subsystems.  This has showed up strongly with the current problems with
> sqlite and exiv2 where digikam simply dies every time one of its subsystem
> crashes.
>
> I would suggest that a better way would be to catch these crash events and
> either handle them (for example skip a file that caused exiv2 to crash) or
> at least to die gracefully.
>
> Not doing this causes digikam to suffer in its reputation and in the worst
> case to make it unusable.  Right now when I start digikam and just let it be
> idle, then a few minutes later it simply disappears. Crashing while scanning
> metadata in the background.  I have been trying to filter out the offending
> files (*.MTS files in my case), but I have to be fast because while I'm
> trying to change digikam settings (filter out mts type) it will still crash
> causing me to have to start all over.  This is really bad behavior.
>
> Jim Shipman
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