[Digikam-users] Sporadic/Fleeting Thumbnails on Yosemite!

[Gilles Caulier]

yes definitively. An old Macports install can be problematic here.

By default Macports is installed to /opt/local/
digiKam package is installed to /opt/digiKam to prevent some conflicts.

But digiKam use some external process to play with database, as KIOSLaves.
If previous Macports has installed these process, this can be create
concurrent rules.

A simple check can be to rename /opt/local as /opt/local.bak as root with
this command from a console :

>sudo mv /opt/local /opt/local.bak

...and to restart your computer and later to try to run digiKam...

Gilles Caulier

2015-09-07 8:55 GMT+02:00 J Albrecht <heviiguy at gmail.com>:

> One time upon starting dk yesterday evening, all of the thumbnails
> appeared. However when I tried to start the program again, they were gone,
>
> I wonder if this may have something to do with an old Macports install of
> dk. I did  “sudo port uninstall digikam” and thought that it was gone.
> Could there perhaps be some remnants of kde left which conflict with what
> Gile’s new .pkg provides? If so, what steps are required to remove them?
>
> I also noticed something very important which had earlier escaped me: When
> I installed the new .pkg, and started the new dk program, all of my old
> settings (albums, db location etc) were still in effect! I know; this is a
> major point and likely a key issue in the troubleshooting exercise.
> Couldn’t see the forest for the trees!  Anyway, I’ve tried to clean
> everything relating to the old install of dk including the entire
>  /opt/digikam directory. There must be a cache and other settings
> somewhere. I couldn’t find them. Does anybody have a suggestion?
>
>
> On 06 Sep 2015, at 18:26, J Albrecht <heviiguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Still no joy!  the io.slave doesn’t want to play nicely.  Grrrrr…..
>
> * “Merci" for your continued attempts to help :-)
>
>
>
>
> On 06 Sep 2015, at 18:00, J Albrecht <heviiguy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Restarting was one of the first things that I had attempted. No joy :-(
> But, perhaps the stars are aligned now; I’ll try again…
>
>
> On 06 Sep 2015, at 17:46, Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> “Could not start process. Unable to create io.slave”
>>
>
> The ioslave is used to ping DB to populate album.
>
> I recommend to restart your computer and try again.
>
> On my macbook pro, the problem do not exist.
>
> Gilles Caulier
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