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

[styx at ewetel.net]

Hey Alan,

thank you very much for the info! It saves me from spending even more  
time investigating a problem I can’t solve. Just a quick question:  
Does this also mean I have to wait until April 2016 (exiv2 0.26  
release date) to work with my pictures in Digikam?


Zitat von Alan Pater <alan.pater at gmail.com>:

> There is a bug related to Casio files in the exiv2 library, which is
> what digikam uses to read and manipulate image metadata.
>
> http://dev.exiv2.org/issues/1106
>
> It was fixed and will be in the next version of the exiv2.
>
> On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 4:09 AM,  <styx at ewetel.net> wrote:
>> Hello again!
>>
>> I’m replying to my own post, because I further downtraced my problem, which
>> is becoming increasingly strange (to me at least), yet my new observations
>> might shade some light on it:
>>
>> I have to correct my previous thought about the crash/non-crash issue due to
>> internal harddisk/external usb harddisk: It seems that this is not the issue
>> – I only thought so, because it overlapped (to huge extent) with another
>> attribute, which is the camera model used to take the picture. A large
>> portion of my pictures is shot with a Casio EX-Z80, which causes crashes. I
>> then went through my collection to find pictures sent by friends, who used
>> different cameras, to find out which pictures cause crashes and which do
>> not. (I always tested rotating a picture) Here’s a list:
>>
>> Pictures of these cameras cause crashes:
>>
>> Casio EX-Z80
>> Casio EX-Z21
>> Casio EX-Z1
>> Casio EX-Z550
>>
>>
>> Pictures of these cameras are fine:
>>
>> Sony DSC-RX100
>> Canon EOS 600D
>> Canon EOS 400D
>> Canon EOS 6D
>> Canon Powershot A480
>> Canon Digital IXUS 950 IS
>> Nikon D90
>> Nikon Coolpix S3100
>> Nikon Coolpix S220
>> Olympus C300Z
>> Olympus E-400
>> Panasonic DMC-FS3
>> Panasonic DMC-TZ41
>> Rollei Powerflex 210 HD
>> Apple iPhone 4
>> Apple iPhone 5
>> Samsung L730
>> HTC One Mini
>>
>>
>> I have no idea, what the issue is, but it also seems that the information in
>> the "Orientation Tag" does not really work for the EX-Z80, because it always
>> shows 'top left', even for pictures that were obviously taken upright. And
>> it’s also striking, that this obviously affects only the Casio models. (I
>> tried to find other Casio models in my collection, but couldn’t find any.)
>>
>> Does this information help?
>>
>> Many thanks!
>>
>>
>> Zitat von tobias.luebben at ewetel.net:
>>
>>
>>> Hi Philip,
>>>
>>> damn – I was just writing an answer to the two previous posts! But now, I
>>> can skip that: Thank you Gilles and Gian Paolo! Thanks to your remarks I
>>> stumpled upon this blog post and the comments:
>>> https://www.digikam.org/node/719
>>>
>>> I checked yesterday and Digikam used "LibExiv2: 0.25". Since the crashes
>>> still happened (and I was on KDE 4.13 (not using Kubuntu  
>>> backports) and only
>>> using Philips "extra" ppa), I thought: Maybe by updating/upgrading
>>> 'everything', all the package issues will be solved: so I added the Kubuntu
>>> backports PPA as well as your (Philips) "kubuntu-backports" ppa. So I now
>>> have all three ppa’s loaded. Unfortunately, the issue still remains.
>>>
>>> I now have the (Philips) "kubuntu-backports" PPA version of DigiKam
>>> installed  (4:4.13.0-trusty~ppa1kde414). However, I still get crashes when
>>> trying to rotate a picture that is on my external harddisk.  
>>> Strangely, I can
>>> rotate pictures on my laptop’s internal harddrive. (I wonder why that is?)
>>>
>>> Attached is another gdb-report done with my current setup. I kinda get the
>>> impression that something with packages is now messed up due to all the
>>> different package installing in the last 2 days....
>>>
>>> Anyways, thanks so much for your help!
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Zitat von Philip Johnsson <philip.johnsson at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>> Hi styx
>>>>
>>>> When you use my PPA with Digikam on Kubuntu 14.04 it's important that you
>>>> check which version of KDE you are using. If you use KDE 4.14 you also
>>>> need
>>>> to add my "kubuntu-backports" PPA with rebuilds of Digikam against the
>>>> updated KDE version for Kubuntu 14.04. You will still need my "extra" PPA
>>>> that have updated dependency packages that Digikam will need. If you use
>>>> KDE 4.13 then you only need my "extra" PPA.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Philip
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 12:29 PM, <styx at ewetel.net> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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)
>>>>> 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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