Failed to load image '(Unknown image format)'

Dougie Nisbet dougie at katsura.uk
Sun Dec 3 16:19:59 GMT 2023


For 'reasons' I did a clean install of Debian Bookworm and then copied 
my dK database from backup. I then compiled digiKam 8.2.0 from source. 
All looks good except when double-clicking on a thumbnail to get a 
preview I'm getting the message: 'Failed to load image'.

I've checked the image and it is on disk and all ok. I can view it with, 
e.g. geeqie.

This is happening with all images.

With logging turned on I can see the following message in the log:

digikam.general: Try to get preview from 
"/store/media/images/2023/11/30/athome - loaf32  -- Thu 30Nov2023 
070408.jpg"
digikam.general: Preview quality:  2
digikam.dimg: "/store/media/images/2023/11/30/athome - loaf32  -- Thu 
30Nov2023 070408.jpg" : Unknown image format !!!
digikam.general: Cannot extract preview for 
"/store/media/images/2023/11/30/athome - loaf32  -- Thu 30Nov2023 
070408.jpg"
digikam.general: Stacked View Mode :  1

I've tried running the Appimage and it's fine, which makes me think 
perhaps I missed a dependency compiling it from source?

Dougie







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