Empty timeline view, empty dates view - but can search for dates?

[Christian Haul]

Thanks for the lightning fast reply. I will look into the logs, too, and might file a bug report on debian, then. 
According to the package info https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/digikam it looks like there are very few patches to digikam 
itself.

Not knowing the internals of digikam I would have expected that the view is populated from the DB based on a SQL Query like

     SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR_MONTH FROM creationDate) AS the_key,COUNT(1)
     FROM ImageInformation
     GROUP BY the_key
     ORDER BY the_key

which - according to docs - would be the same on MySQL as on MariaDB. SQLite does not, though. Could always convert to 
string first, though.

Anyhow, I will switch to the AppImage one, too, at least for the time being.

Thanks.

On 12/26/25 4:22 PM, Maik Qualmann wrote:
> We received this bug report:
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=511229
> 
> The solution for the user was to use the digiKam AppImage.
> One would have to dig deeper into Debian to see if they've patched anything.
> 
> Maik
> 
> Am Freitag, 26. Dezember 2025, 15:58:39 Mitteleuropäische Normalzeit schrieb
> Christian Haul:
>> Hi list,
>>
>> I have been using digikam for ages now but at some point the timeline view
>> (and the dates view) suddenly became empty. I have checked with the DB
>> (MariaDB) that dates are included, also they are properly shown in the
>> overview and I can even search for pictures in a timeframe.
>>
>> I have no clue what might be a reason for this.
>>
>> I'm running mostly on gnome on debian unstable but using plasma or Xfce
>> doesn't change a thing. I'm aware that unstable occasionally breaks things
>> but this issue persists now for a longer time so I'm afraid it's probably
>> some local configuration issue. My pictures reside on an NFS share from a
>> NAS. As said, I have no clue where to start looking. Pointers welcome.
>>
>> TIA
>> Chris.