[Digikam-users] Digikam Crash when changing metadata (rotating, assigning flags or keywords)

Gian Paolo Sanino Vattier gpsanino at vtr.net
Wed Sep 9 04:18:44 BST 2015


Hi Styx,
I have no idea if this will be of any help for you, but recently I had a
similar issue with Exiv2 in my OpenSuSE 13.2 with KDE.
I do not know if with Kubuntu is the same but in my case there was a
packaging issue that made difficult to update to Exiv2 0.25.0.

In fact there is a package Exiv2 but has nothing to deal with this dance
and makes no difference to install it or not.

This is the issue in OpenSuSE:
Digikam needs exiv2 v0.25 but the official repos have it packaged in a
way that it requests libkexiv2-11 in a version that in turns requires
the file libexiv2.so.13 provided by libexiv2-13 instead of libexiv2-14
(with the correct Exiv2 v0.25.0).

Therefore in my case the solution was to replace the packages of:

digikam
libkexiv2  (note the "k" on the name)
libexiv2-14
and all the kipi-plugins published on this repo:

  * http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/NicoK:/branches:/KDE:/Extra/openSUSE_13.2/


 Libexiv and libkexiv were the key together with digikam packaged to use
the right versions of these libraries.

Hope it guides you somehow to where to look for a solution to get exiv2
0.25.0 that as Gilles stated, makes the entire difference when you have
video files mixed with photos among other issues.

all best!
gps



On 09/08/2015 03:21 PM, Gilles Caulier wrote:
> Are you sure that digiKam use right Exiv2 version ? Check
> Help/Components Info dialog for details.
>
> Gilles Caulier
>
> 2015-09-08 20:04 GMT+02:00 <styx at ewetel.net <mailto:styx at ewetel.net>>:
>
>     Wow! Thanks for the fast and good answer, Gilles!
>
>     It took me some time to get all the right versions. I added the
>     PPA mentioned in the first mail again and then installed the
>     package exiv2, which I hadn’t installed before – I think. One hour
>     ago, the package maintainer also updated the version to 4.13.
>
>     However, the problem somehow remains: I can rotate pictures, that
>     are located on my internal harddrive, but whenever I try to rotate
>     pictures on my external hard drive, Digikam crashes again. Did I
>     miss anything? Maybe it has something to do with "libexiv2.so.14"?!?
>
>     (I attached a new gdb-report again)
>
>     Thank you so much!
>
>
>
>     Zitat von Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com
>     <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>:
>
>         I crash in Exiv2 shared lib :
>
>         digikam: tiffcomposite.cpp:749: virtual
>         Exiv2::Internal::TiffComponent*
>         Exiv2::Internal::TiffMnEntry::doAddPath(uint16_t,
>         Exiv2::Internal::TiffPath&, Exiv2::Internal::TiffComponent*,
>         Exiv2::Internal::TiffComponent::AutoPtr): Zusicherung »mn_«
>         nicht erfüllt.
>
>         This problem have been already reported in the past as
>         UPSTREAM bug to
>         Exiv2 team.
>
>         I recommend to update to last Exiv2 0.25.0.
>
>         Gilles Caulier
>
>         2015-09-08 14:08 GMT+02:00 <styx at ewetel.net
>         <mailto:styx at ewetel.net>>:
>
>             Thanks for your prompt answer!
>
>             I installed all the needed dbg-packages and hopefully did
>             everything
>             right! Please find the dbg-output attached.
>
>             Thanks!
>
>
>             Zitat von Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com
>             <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com>>:
>
>
>             We need a GDB backtrace :
>
>
>                 https://www.digikam.org/contrib
>
>                 Gilles Caulier
>
>                 2015-09-08 12:29 GMT+02:00 <styx at ewetel.net
>                 <mailto:styx at ewetel.net>>:
>
>                 Hello!
>
>
>                     I’m new to the list, so forgive me, if this is not
>                     the right place to ask
>                     the question. ;-)
>
>                     I’m on Kubuntu 14.04 (DigiKam 3.5) and I have a
>                     strange behavior: I can’t
>                     do anything with the pictures, but watch them.
>                     Every time I try to
>                     rotate a
>                     picture or assign a keyword or a flag, DigiKam
>                     immediately crashes. I
>                     attached one of the KCrash reports, but KCrash
>                     says, that the collected
>                     information is useless.
>
>                     I had this PPA
>                     (https://launchpad.net/~philip5/+archive/ubuntu/extra
>                     <https://launchpad.net/%7Ephilip5/+archive/ubuntu/extra>)
>                     added (DigiKam 4.12), but removed it again after
>                     experiencing the problem
>                     with the crasing DigiKam. However, the crashes
>                     also occur in the Ubuntu
>                     14.04 repository version (v 3.5). Has anybody had
>                     or still have the same
>                     problem? Could it be related to some packages that
>                     were installed due to
>                     the newer version of DigiKam in the PPA and don’t
>                     behave well with other
>                     packages in Ubuntu 14.04?
>
>                     Some hint would be very appreciated. Thank you
>                     very much!
>
>                     - styx
>
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