[digiKam-users] --> Digikam 6.3 unstable and DEBUG

[Maik Qualmann]

The problem is known and we are working on it.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411612

Maik

Am Freitag, 20. September 2019, 21:41:15 CEST schrieb Alex Antão:
> Yes, I got it. On MacOSzx is a PKG file.
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> Found installed on /opt
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> Ran from terminal and got a lot of logs when it started to generate
> fingerprints.
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> So, I opened Tag Manager, it opened a screen with all Tags. I couldn't do
> anything becausee the fingerprints process was runing, so I clicked to
> close the Tag Manager. 
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> Got a Seg Fault 11. 
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> No other errors.
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> ---- Ativado Sex, 20 set 2019 13:57:02 -0300 Andrey Goreev
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> I think appimage is Linux only. You need to download the version for Mac OS
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> On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:53 AM Alex Antão
> <mailto:alex at familiaturista.com.br> wrote:
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> No, 
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>     I use MacOSx. I migrated just the MacPhotos Library and want to use
> Digikam.
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>     All on MacOS High Sierra, no Linux.
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>     I'll try to start AppImage from terminal, although I've tried and didn't
> manage to, I'll try again. Thanks.
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> ---- Ativado Sex, 20 set 2019 11:54:23 -0300 Gilles Caulier
> <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com> escreveu ----
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> So if i understand correctly, you have used MAcOS and you migrate under
> Linux, as you use AppImage now.
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> So, starting AppImage from the console must print a lots of debug
> statements. If not, there is a wrong settings somewhere in your system.
> Which Linux distribution do you use exactly ?
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> Best
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> Gilles Caulier
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> Le ven. 20 sept. 2019 à 15:50, Alex Antão
> <mailto:alex at familiaturista.com.br> a écrit :
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> Hi,
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>     I'm running digikam om MacOSx High Sierra.
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>     This 800Gb are a mix of Photos and videos. I have Photos in JPEG, PNG,
> HEIC and NEF formats.
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>     This library was exported fom Mac Photos 3.0 and are all located in an
> external HD formated to HFS+.
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>     Digikam ofter crashes on several parts, when I ask to recognize faces,
> to update Fingerprints (noticed that in a subset of the library this is
> more dificult to happen).
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>     For example, the last time it crashes, I had selected a few photos,
> clicked on Tools tab, selected Tag Manager, it opened a window with all
> Tags, and when I closed it, it crashed. 
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>     I really want to migrate to Digikam, because my Photos App is not
> reliable anymore (discovered I have 720 photos missing on it, but it does
> not know, only when I try to export them), but I need Digikam to be stable
> enough to try to fullfill all my needs...
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>     I'm runing it with AppImage, I don't have time to DEBUG it, but seeing
> the logs are suficiente to try to discover a possible problem and ask for
> help.
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> Thanks....
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> ---- Ativado Sex, 20 set 2019 10:32:55 -0300 Gilles Caulier
> <mailto:caulier.gilles at gmail.com> escreveu ----
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> Le jeu. 19 sept. 2019 à 21:41, Alex Antão
> <mailto:alex at familiaturista.com.br> a écrit :
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> Hi,
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>  I just downloaded the last version of Digikam.
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>  My library is huge, about 800Gb with more than 100.000 photos, and I am
> still organizing it, from a export of Photos Library to a External HD.
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> Hi,
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> This is a very huge collection. I never tested in this kind of
> configuration. Yere my collection is about 200000 JPEG files but size is
> around 300 Gb on a SSD drive.
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> Which kind of database do you use exactly ? where is stored this database ?
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>  I don't know when exactly, but I'm felling digikam quite unstable. It
> crashes often. I am reorganizing the Library with some scripts I'm
> developing.
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>  For example, I just opened it and it started scanning the changes I've done
> on the files, but when I click on my root Album, it crashes. But it does
> not if I left it untouched
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>  I ordered it to generate Fingerprints and it crashes. But it does not if I
> select only one album to generate.
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> I tried to open it from terminal to see if there are some error messages,
> but none was printed.
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> It's abnormal. Your linux system hide Qt debug spaces with a default
> configuration. I already fixed this rule to under Centos. It just a text
> file to change on the system. Which Linux system do you use exactly ?
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> Before to run digiKam set this env. variable :
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> export QT_LOGGING_RULES="*.debug=true"
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> Is there a way to debug and see what's going on?
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> Yes, sure. With AppImage bundle, start digiKam with debug argument. It will
> run digiKam in GDB.
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> If you don't use AppImage, just start digiKam in debugger as explained here
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> https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
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> Best
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> Gilles Caulier