digikam 5.1 and 5.2 not starting on WIndows 10

[Eduard Zalar]

Hello,

finally, I solved my "digiKam is not starting" problem by:

Uninstalling digiKam V5.2.
Deleting each and every digiKam related file which I found on my disk after
uninstalling.
Rebooting.
Installing digiKam V5.2 and stepping again through the initial
configuration.

Now, it works well.

With best regards
Eddie

Eduard Zalar <eduard at zalar.de> schrieb am Mo., 26. Sep. 2016 um 16:32 Uhr:

> Hello Gilles,
>
> my images collection is located in folder:
> \Our Pictures
> I organize my pictures per year, so the subfolders of this folder are 2011
> to 2016.
>
> I tried to place the library folder besides the images.  So I tried to
> configure:
> \Our Pictures\digiKamLib
>
> With this config, and starting digiKam the very first time after
> installation, the folder "\Our Pictures\digiKamLib" does not exist.
> In this case the file "\Our Pictures\digiKamLib" is created first and the
> folder can not be created anymore...
>
> I tried the same also using the folder:
> \Users\<My account name>\digiKamLib
> This folder is definitely outside of the folder where the images
> collection is located.
> But it was the same behavior.
>
> I also tried to use "\digiKam" and "\digiKam.lib" as folder names.  Every
> time, a file with the same name is created first and then the folder for
> the library can not be created anymore.
>
> I hope this is better understandable.
>
> BTW: Could you please tell me which is the default folder for the library?
>
> I installed and uninstalled digiKam so many times that I forgot the
> default locaton.
> Maybe I should configure digiKam to search and put the library folder in
> the default location and see what happens.
>
> With best regards
> Eddie
>
> Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> schrieb am Mo., 26. Sep. 2016
> um 12:52 Uhr:
>
>> 2016-09-26 10:15 GMT+02:00 Eduard Zalar <eduard at zalar.de>:
>>
>>> Hello again,
>>>
>>> I still experience the same problem: I start digiKam 5.2.0 (the new
>>> installer, downloaded today.) - but it hangs up with a stale process in
>>> windows task manager.
>>> Only if I delete the library folder, digiKam starts up with the UI.  It
>>> creates the library folder with the 3 .db files inside.
>>> Now I close digiKam.
>>> I try to restart it - it again hangs up.
>>>
>>>
>>> I did some additional investigation:
>>>
>>> 1. There already exists a bug report with a similar description of the
>>> behavior in a comment: 345245
>>> <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=345245>
>>> The debug view output described here is basically the same as mine:
>>> 5568]
>>> ds\security\umstartup\usermgr\cli\usermgrcli.cxx(165)\usermgrcli.dll!00007FFF4BCA10FF:
>>> (caller: 00007FFF488391AB) ReturnHr[PreRelease](21) tid(22c0) 80070005
>>> Zugriff verweigert
>>> [5568]
>>> base\appmodel\execmodel\modern\lifetimemanager\appxexecutionutil.cpp(40)\modernexecserver.dll!00007FFF4883928C:
>>> (caller: 00007FFF4884DCA5) ReturnHr[PreRelease](76) tid(22c0) 80070005
>>> Zugriff verweigert
>>> [7320] Suspending
>>> "Zugriff verweigert" means "Access denied".
>>> Even if the initial bug report does not report the same behavior, the
>>> comments added later on describe it.
>>>
>>> 2. A file exists with the same name as the library folder
>>>
>> I observed the folder where the digiKam library should be created.  And
>>> here I recognized that a file is created with the same name as the library
>>> folder should have.  And that file is created before the folder is created
>>> and before the digiKam UI is shown.
>>> Sometimes, I also get the error message at digiKam startup that the
>>> folder can not be created - because there already exists a file with the
>>> same name.  But I can not reproduce this behaviour by now.
>>>
>>> If I delete the file, but NOT the library folder, digiKam starts up
>>> normally.
>>> Closing digiKam and restarting it results again in the hang up.
>>>
>>> I opened the file and it seems that this is a log file from the SQLite
>>> engine...  I attached it for your reference.
>>>
>>
>> The file attched is a sqlite3 databse binary container, in fact the
>> digiKam database file...
>>
>> I don't understand your investigations. You talk about a file name that
>> is the same than the library folder... Can you list exactly the contents
>> of you root directory where images collection and Sqlite database are
>> hosted ?
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>
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