[digiKam-users] Crash when entering Captions. Version 5.9.0

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Unfortunatly, it's difficult to verify where the code crash under Windows
using 5.9.0 release. There is no crash handler with this release under
Windows.

This have been improved with next 6.0.0, which still in beta stage for the
moment. The DrMinGW crash handler have been add an now, we can see a crash
backtrace as well without to use an extra software to debug. It's easy to
see where the dysfunction appear in source code.

So, i recommend to test with the last DK 6.0.0-beta3 installer available
here :

https://files.kde.org/digikam/

Note that 6.0.0 introduce changes in database schema which will make the
tables not compatible with 5.9.0 later. So please make a database backup
before to try 6.0.0.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le dim. 16 déc. 2018 à 07:10, papertape <plowmail2010 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
> DigiKam 5.9.0
> Desktop computer
>
> So far, I have used DigiKam only to enter Captions on TIFF files.   DigiKam
> occasionally crashes.  Once, it crashed when I clicked on the Rotate
> overlay
> in the expanded display produced by double-clicking on a thumbnail.  Oddly,
> my computer becomes catatonic.
>
> I copy text into the clipboard from a list of Captions in an editor
> (emacs),
> and then click the right mouse button in DigiKam's Caption field in the
> right-hand column.  Sometime during the cycle, the machine freezes.  The
> mouse pointer moves OK, but clicks have no effect.  CTL-ALT-DEL has no
> effect.  To get the machine going, I have to cycle power.
>
> This has happened a half-dozen times, scattered over about a dozen hours of
> running.  Twice, the file for the last image I was working on before the
> crash was filled with zeros.
>
> My album has only 600 images, and Task Manager shows memory consumption
> sits
> around 2.6 GB (out of 6 GB).  CPU hardly ever rises above 5%.  Lazy synch
> is
> off.
>
> I ran chkdsk and HDSentinal's read test diagnostics on the machine's
> internal disk and on the USB external disk that holds the image files.  I
> ran Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool and memtest86.  No diagnostic
> complained.
>
> Has anyone else seen anything like this?
>
> (Many thanks to everyone who has replied to my other questions!)
>
>
>
>
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