Digicam core dumps on start (Ubuntu 22.04)

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

digiKam appimage is only compiled with X11 support, but it's
compatible with the Wayland/X11 emulation plugin.

Best

Gilles Caulier

Le ven. 2 août 2024 à 13:20, Stuart T Rogers
<stuart at stella-maris.org.uk> a écrit :
>
> Apology that should have said 8.4 (not 8.8!) My bad
>
> Stuart
>
> On 02/08/2024 12:12, Remco Viëtor wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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