[digiKam-users] DigiKam 7.8 has started to crash - Segmentation fault.

[Mick Sulley]

Running DK 7.8 appimage on Linux Mint.  I have been running 7.8 fo a 
little while without issue.  Today I copied some pictures between 
folders and now it crashes with a segmentation fault. Started from 
terminal this is what I see -

mick at DeskMint21:~/.DigiKam$ ./digiKam-7.8.0-x86-64.appimage
-- digiKam Linux AppImage Bundle
-- Use 'help' as CLI argument to know all available options for digiKam 
application.
-- Notes: to integrate this bundle to your desktop, use AppImageLauncher.
--        to enable all debug messages on the console, use 'export 
QT_LOGGING_RULES="digikam*=true"'.
awk: cmd. line:1: warning: command line argument `/etc/upstream-release' 
is a directory: skipped
awk: cmd. line:1: warning: command line argument `/etc/upstream-release' 
is a directory: skipped
-- Detected host Linux linuxmint-64-21
-- AppImage mounted directory: /tmp/.mount_digiKaxGFZAm
Check library libudev.so.0
Check library libxcb-dri3.so.0
Check library libcrypto.so.1.1
Check library libssl.so.1.1
Check library libnss3.so
Check library libnssutil3.so
Check library libsmime3.so
Check library libpango-1.0.so.0
Check library libpangocairo-1.0.so.0
Check library libgmodule-2.0.so.0
-- Preloading shared libs: 
:/tmp/.mount_digiKaxGFZAm/usr/lib/libavif.so.13:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcrypto.so.1.1:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libssl.so.1.1:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnss3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnssutil3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libsmime3.so:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0:/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmodule-2.0.so.0
[1202/133835.041605:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)] 
locale_file_path.empty() for locale
[1202/133835.221939:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)] 
locale_file_path.empty() for locale
[1202/133835.221932:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)] 
locale_file_path.empty() for locale
QtAV 1.13.0(Aug 29 2022, 17:54:57)
Multimedia framework base on Qt and FFmpeg.
Distributed under the terms of LGPLv2.1 or later.
Shanghai, China Copyright (C) 2012-2019 Wang Bin (aka. Lucas Wang) 
wbsecg1 at gmail.com
Donate: http://qtav.org/donate.html
Source: https://github.com/wang-bin/QtAV
Home page: http://qtav.org
[1202/133838.098426:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)] 
locale_file_path.empty() for locale
unknown: Unhandled container to remove :  Digikam::DigikamApp
Digikam::MetaEngine::Private::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot load 
metadata from file with Exiv2 backend: 
/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/TwoMarnie.xcf 
(Error # 11 : 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/TwoMarnie.xcf: The 
file contains data of an unknown image type"
Digikam::MetaEngine::Private::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot load 
metadata from file with Exiv2 backend: 
/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/NoMarnie.xcf (Error 
# 11 : 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/NoMarnie.xcf: The 
file contains data of an unknown image type"
Digikam::MetaEngine::Private::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot load 
metadata with Exiv2:  (Error # 11 : 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/NoMarnie.xcf: The 
file contains data of an unknown image type"
Digikam::MetaEngine::Private::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot load 
metadata with Exiv2:  (Error # 11 : 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/TwoMarnie.xcf: The 
file contains data of an unknown image type"
unknown: Can not load " 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/TwoMarnie.xcf" " 
using DImg::DImgQImageLoader!
unknown: Error message from loader: "Unable to read image data"
unknown: Can not load " 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/NoMarnie.xcf" " 
using DImg::DImgQImageLoader!
unknown: Error message from loader: "Unable to read image data"
Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::createThumbnail: Cannot create thumbnail for 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/TwoMarnie.xcf"
Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::createThumbnail: Cannot create thumbnail for 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/NoMarnie.xcf"
Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::load: Thumbnail is null for 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/TwoMarnie.xcf"
Digikam::ThumbnailCreator::load: Thumbnail is null for 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/NoMarnie.xcf"
Digikam::MetaEngine::Private::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot load 
metadata from file with Exiv2 backend: 
/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/PIC20221127T125311.j2k 
(Error # 11 : 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/PIC20221127T125311.j2k: 
The file contains data of an unknown image type"
Digikam::MetaEngine::Private::printExiv2ExceptionError: Cannot load 
metadata from file with Exiv2 backend: 
/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/PIC20221127T125311.j2k 
(Error # 11 : 
"/home/mick/Documents/Pictures/Album/Competition/2022/PIC20221127T125311.j2k: 
The file contains data of an unknown image type"
/tmp/.mount_digiKaxGFZAm/AppRun: line 197: 21584 Segmentation fault      
(core dumped) digikam $@
mick at DeskMint21:~/.DigiKam$