[digiKam-users] Still invisible albums

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

This is the problem :

Digikam::CollectionScanner::scanAlbum: Folder does not exist or is not
readable:  "/mnt/sdb5/home/gene/Pictures"

Check the right access to this mount path.

Gilles Caulier

Le sam. 2 juil. 2022 à 00:15, gene heskett <gheskett at shentel.net> a écrit :
>
> On 7/1/22 13:18, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> > On vendredi 1 juillet 2022 18:33:48 CEST gene heskett wrote:
> >> On 7/1/22 11:53, gene heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings All;
> >>>
> >>> I just purged the debian digikam v7.1.0, and installed this weeks 64
> >>> bit AppImage.
> >>> Version 7.8.0
> >>>
> >>> It still cannot see /home/xxxxx/Pictures which has about 50G of older
> >>> pictures in the various subdirs.  Like 7.1.0 it sees the camera and its
> >>> cards contents just fine but because it cannot see a place to import
> >>> them to,
> >>> I am forced to remove the card, put it in a reader and from there load
> >>> it into
> >>> gimp.
> >>>
> >>> Is there some option to set to enable that? The AppImage downloaded
> >>> another
> >>> nearly 400 megs of stuff and reported success but a restart does not
> >>> fix this
> >>> problem.
> >>>
> >>> What do I check for next?
> >> Next is the user, its digiKam, so of course it can't see my stuff.
> >> Since I am the only user here that breaths, how to I fix that?
> >>
> >> Make digiKam a member of my group? That is a security hole
> >> that will need plugged.
> >>
> >> Since _I_ ran it, from _MY_ terminal, why is it not running as me?
> >>
> >> I DO own the AppImage.
> >>
> >>> Thanks all.
> >>>
> >>> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> >> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> > You *have* defined at least one collection for digikam. That should have been
> > asked for on first startup, iirc, you can check and define additional
> > collections in the configuration dialog. If it's a remote collection that's
> > not accessible, it's normal you have a problem...
> The link its looking for is on a differently mounted version of my /home
> directory which is a raid10 in both instances. I can give it the exact path
> to that same /home/me/Pictures directory in the album search
> menu at the bottom of the left panel, and it locks up and I have to
> killall it.
> >
> > As for your posting, it helps to give the others some little time before
> > getting unpleasant.
> The ping? a week no ack, I did get the incoming echo from the first post,
> so it seemed like I needed to ping the thread. The original post was on
> 06/22 at 8:44 when I got the echo from the list. I got the echo from
> the ping on 06/30 at 11:48. 8 days, so I pinged it.
>
> This is likely, IMO from a gut feeling, some dependency not declared
> even in the 7.8.0 AppImage, which otherwise looks like its running fine.
>
> This is what it logs to the terminal its launched from:
> gene at coyote:~$ digiKam
> -- 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"'.
> 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_digiKabM4etx/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
> [0701/115728.976030:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
> [0701/115729.023027:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
> [0701/115729.023093:WARNING:resource_bundle_qt.cpp(119)]
> locale_file_path.empty() for locale
> QtAV 1.13.0(Jun 21 2022, 13:37:45)
> Multimedia framework base on Qt and FFmpeg.
> Distributed under the terms of LGPLv2.1 or later.
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> Source: https://github.com/wang-bin/QtAV
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> unknown: Unhandled container to remove :  Digikam::DigikamApp
> Digikam::CollectionScanner::scanAlbum: Folder does not exist or is not
> readable:  "/mnt/sdb5/home/gene/Pictures"
>
> And I've grepped -R my home dir for that last lines content w/o finding it.
> So I've no clue where it is pulling it from. Hence the original ignored
> post
> and the ping 8 days later.
>
> That and the fact that htop says its running as the user "digiKam", not
> "$me"
> both would seem to need addressing.
>
> Take care and stay well, Remco Viëtor.
>
> Cheers, Gene Heskett.
> --
> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
>   soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940)
> If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
>   - Louis D. Brandeis
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>