[digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding

Thu Mar 23 06:40:51 GMT 2023

Hi Nadine,

Sorry for the delay. I will try to respond to you in detail this
evening. I'm busy in my office currently...

Best regards

Gilles Caulier

Le lun. 20 mars 2023 à 23:54, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcast.net> a écrit :
>
> Mail,  I want you to know that I appreciate you & Gilles more than you can know. I am trying to understand what has happened here & even more so to fix my DigiKam.
>
> Correct me if I am wrong:
> The "Invalid escape sequence ... " messages are concerning screen formatting.
>
> So if these lines in the digikamrc file are in error, what should they be?
>
> My initial issue with DigiKam "not responding" began while I was using 7.7.0. I have been using that version, I believe, since before December 2022. I upgraded to 7.9.0 a few days ago in an attempt to solve the "not responding" issue. As you can see, that didn't work. When Gilles asked for Debug logs, I installed the debug version of 7.9.0. I have not installed any version of 8.x.x.
>
> I'm not understanding why the log shows errors with loading plug-ins. The plug-ins appear to be located in the appropriate locations.
>
> What is the best way for me to resolve my situation? How do I correct the functionality of the digikamrc config file? How can I make DigiKam find the plug-ins? What version of DigiKam is best for me to use?
>
> As always, thank you so much,
>
> Nadine H
>
> ________________________________
> From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> on behalf of Maik Qualmann <metzpinguin at gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2023 11:58 PM
> To: digikam-users at kde.org <digikam-users at kde.org>
> Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding
>
> The wrong entries in the config file come from an (older) KXMLGui. When writing
> window positions, the monitor name and more should be used. Since the monitor
> device names were not always resolved under Windows, but also under Wayland,
> the sprintf placeholders were written as config keys.
>
> Some plugins not loading looks like a mix of digiKam-7/8 in the system.
>
> Maik
>
> Am Montag, 20. März 2023, 07:04:43 CET schrieb Gilles Caulier:
> > Le lun. 20 mars 2023 à 01:32, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcast.net> a écrit
> :
> > > Thank you, Gilles
> > >
> > > All of those files are on an SSD that does not appear to have any
> > > failures. My virus protection is up to date. But no matter.
> > The SSD is a removable one or installed on your computer ?
> >
> > Did you install more than one digiKam version on your computer ? didi
> > you use only the official installer from the 7.x digiKam.org web site
> > or did you try the 8.0.0 pre release installer ?
> >
> > > The question now is how do I recover or replace those files to make it
> > > work again?
> > For the binary files, a re-install of digiKam must solve the problem
> > if the same location is used to install and replace the old one.
> >
> > For the config file (which is a text INI file), did you backup all
> > files listed in online doc :
> >
> > https://docs.digikam.org/en/getting_started/installation.html#configuration-> files
> >
> > If not, do it, and send me by mail an archive for investigation.
> >
> > > You are a treasure,
> >
> > (:=)))
> > Best regards
> >
> > Gilles
> >
> > > Nadine H
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> on behalf of Gilles
> > > Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2023 3:02 PM
> > > To: digikam-users at kde.org <digikam-users at kde.org>
> > > Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I see 2 problems from the log. first one is the most important:
> > >
> > > 00000025 297.93386841 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1296: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\D\"."
> > > 00000026 297.93399048 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1334: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\.\"."
> > > 00000027 297.93405151 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1334: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\I\"."
> > > 00000028 297.93411255 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1335: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\S\"."
> > > 00000029 1974.45385742 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1294: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\D\"."
> > > 00000030 1974.45385742 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1296: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\D\"."
> > > 00000031 1974.45385742 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1299: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\D\"."
> > > 00000032 1974.45410156 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1301: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\D\"."
> > > 00000033 1974.45410156 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1337: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\.\"."
> > > 00000034 1974.45422363 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1337: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\I\"."
> > > 00000035 1974.45422363 [3132] kf.config.core: "KConfigIni: In
> > > file C:/Users/Mom/AppData/Local/digikamrc, line 1338: " "Invalid
> > > escape sequence \"\\P\"."
> > > Your digikamrc file is corrupted. this one hosts all settings,
> > > including the collections. I don't know how you arrives at this stage,
> > > but this can explain why digiKam fails to run.
> > >
> > > Look also the second one :
> > >
> > > 00000004 4.03615141 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_Assigncaptions_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000005 4.03615141 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_Assigncaptions_Plugin.dll: The
> > > specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000006 4.06181002 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_AssignLabels_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000007 4.06181002 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_AssignLabels_Plugin.dll: The
> > > specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000008 4.37046480 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_ConvertToAVIF_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000009 4.37046480 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_ConvertToAVIF_Plugin.dll: The
> > > specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000010 4.50869894 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_ConvertToJXL_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000011 4.50869894 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_ConvertToJXL_Plugin.dll: The
> > > specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000012 4.62113047 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_ConvertToWEBP_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000013 4.62113047 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_ConvertToWEBP_Plugin.dll: The
> > > specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000014 4.92783213 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_QualitySort_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000015 4.92783213 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_QualitySort_Plugindll: The
> > > specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000016 5.15791130 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/bqm/Bqm_Translate_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000017 5.15791130 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\bqm\\Bqm_Translate_Plugindll:
> > > The specified procedure could not be found."
> > > 00000018 7.84661818 [3132] digikam.general: Ignoring to load the
> > > following file since it doesn't look like a valid digiKam external
> > > plugin: "C:/Program
> > > Files/digiKam/plugins/digikam/generic/Generic_TextConverter_Plugin.dll"
> > > 00000019 7.84661818 [3132] Reason: "Cannot load library
> > > C:\\Program
> > > Files\\digiKam\\plugins\\digikam\\generic\\Generic_TextConverter_Plugin.d
> > > ll: The specified procedure could not be found."
> > >
> > > plugins binary files from digiKam are corrupted. How is it possible ?
> > > Hard drive failure ? virus ???
> > >
> > > Best
> > >
> > > Gilles Caulier
> > >
> > > Le dim. 19 mars 2023 à 20:18, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcastnet> a
> écrit :
> > > > Did the file not come through?
> > > >
> > > > I try again.
> > > >
> > > > Nadine H
> > > >
> > > > ________________________________
> > > > From: Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com>
> > > > Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2023 2:06 AM
> > > > To: Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcast.net>
> > > > Cc: digikam-users at kde.org <digikam-users at kdeorg>
> > > > Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding
> > > >
> > > > Hi Nadine,
> > > >
> > > > Download the "DebugView" program from Microsoft. This is what i mean.
> > > >
> > > > Run it before digiKam to catch debug traces from the application. It's
> > > > explained on the "contribute" page from the project, in the "Freezes
> > > > and Other Run-Time Issues/Windows" section...
> > > >
> > > > Gilles Caulier
> > > >
> > > > Le dim. 19 mars 2023 à 10:02, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcastnet> a
> écrit :
> > > > > Hi, Gilles,
> > > > >
> > > > > I hope I have done this correctly.
> > > > >
> > > > > I have downloaded & installed the debug version of DigiKam 7.90 & done
> > > > > the same with DebugView.
> > > > >
> > > > > It doesn't seem to matter what operation I request. In this case it
> > > > > was just to assign a color label to an image. It is a .tif scan of a
> > > > > drawing. The progress bar stays at 0% & I have to force close
> > > > > DigiKam.
> > > > >
> > > > > Let me know what else I need to do.
> > > > >
> > > > > The log file just confuses me.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you, Gilles
> > > > >
> > > > > Nadine H
> > > > >
> > > > > ________________________________
> > > > > From: Digikam-users <digikam-users-bounces at kde.org> on behalf of
> > > > > Gilles Caulier <caulier.gilles at gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, March 19,
> > > > > 2023 1:11 AM
> > > > > To: digikam-users at kde.org <digikam-users at kde.org>
> > > > > Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] DigiKam not responding
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > It sounds like the metadata writing pipeline is locked somewhere.
> > > > > Which kind of files do you want to tag exactly ?
> > > > >
> > > > > Also, we need to see the debug traces done in background while tag
> > > > > operation. download Microsoft DebugView program, and run it before the
> > > > > digiKam session. See here for details :
> > > > >
> > > > > https://www.digikam.org/contribute/
> > > > >
> > > > > Best
> > > > >
> > > > > Gilles Caulier
> > > > >
> > > > > Le dim. 19 mars 2023 à 01:42, Nadine Helkenn <cnhelkenn at comcastnet> a
> écrit :
> > > > > > 18 March 2023
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > All right. I've broken DigiKam once again.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I wish I knew how I do this so I can avoid doing it. It has been
> > > > > > more than a year since the last time it broke, and I can't remember
> > > > > > how to fix it. And I don't think it broke the same way.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm working in Windows 10 using SQLite. I recently updated from
> > > > > > DigiKam 7.7.0 to 7.9.0 to see if that would fix the problem. It did
> > > > > > not. I had to manually update exiftool from 1242 to 12.58.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Symptom: adding tags to images appears to work, but the progress bar
> > > > > > for "Writing metadata to file:" stays at 0% and never finishes
> > > > > > Thumbnail images don't display. Images can be seen in preview.
> > > > > > DigiKam app says it is not responding.
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Efforts: rebooted Windows. Restored database files to previous
> > > > > > version (only two days ago was available).
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Have I corrupted the database files? Can I get Digikam to rebuild
> > > > > > them? Are all 4-5 of them compromised? What is my best course of
> > > > > > action?
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks for all of your collective knowledge & assistance.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Nadine H
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