Digicam core dumps on start (Ubuntu 22.04)

[Remco Viëtor]

On vendredi 2 août 2024 12:01:40 CEST Geoff Browne wrote:
> I have been using dk for a year or two.  After a break of several months it
> no longer runs. executable is digiKam-8.4.0-Qt6-x86-64.appimage
> I get the messages below and a coredump.
> 
> Googling suggests there may be a problem with dk not working with Wayland,
> but I am not experienced enough to know how to fix it. Grateful for any
> help

If digikam isn't made to work with wayland, it's possible there's nothing you 
can do to make it work...

But you have messages about two missing components. 

Is your system using Qt version 6? If not, there should be a Qt5 version of 
the digikam appimage, you may want to try that one.

Otherwise:
> Could not find the Qt platform plugin "wayland" in ""
> unknown: could not connect to display wayland-0
Do you have the proper libraries installed for Qt6?

> unknown: From 6.5.0, xcb-cursor0 or libxcb-cursor0 is needed to load the Qt
Do you have (lib)xcb-cursor0 installed? ?

> xcb platform plugin. unknown: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
> in "" even though it was found. unknown: This application failed to start
> because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the
> application may fix this problem.