Problem with starting digiKam 5.4.0

[Mica Semrick]

We were seeing this problem in GTK3 on windows systems with the RawTherapee application as well. The solution in that case was to disable the A: drive in your computer's BIOS/EFI.

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On April 20, 2017 1:25:21 PM PDT, Markwart Lindenthal <Markwart at Lindenthal.com> wrote:
>Dear Gilles Caulier!
>Many thanks for your very quick response.
>But unluckyly both new installations (at first the v 5.6.0 of your
>link, 
>afterwards v 5.5.0 via "Chip") failed, the failure-message is "Drive A:
>
>not found" occurs even now.
>
>How could I try to update "Solid"? Might this bring the solution?
>
>Another question is: where does digikam store its databases? are they
>in 
>folder .../digikam/database? I would like to save digiKams datafiles
>and 
>afterwards de-install the whole program and sweep off all the programm 
>folders, but would not like to loose the data of nearly 50000 pictures.
>
>Could a complete new installation repair my digiKam?
>
>Best regards! Markwart Lindenthal.
>
>Am 2017-04-20 um 17:56 schrieb Gilles Caulier:
>> Somebody has already reported this problem few week ago. I think it's
>
>> relevant of KF5::Solid interface from KDE which handle devices.
>>
>> Try to use new 5.5.0 available at usual download page or the 
>> pre-release installer 5.6.0 when Solid have been updated :
>>
>> https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BzeiVr-byqt5Y0tIRWVWelRJenM
>>
>> Gilles Caulier
>>
>> 2017-04-20 17:50 GMT+02:00 Markwart Lindenthal 
>> <Markwart at lindenthal.com <mailto:Markwart at lindenthal.com>>:
>>
>>     Please excuse my ...
>>
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