It has happened to me a few times, but I've never been able to catch the error in the console. It is always after scanning for new pictures at startup, but only once in a while. I opened this bug report: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=406584 -- Sent from: http://digikam.1695700.n4.nabble.com/digikam-users-f1735189.html