digikam not starting on fedora 41

[Gilles Caulier]

Hi,

Yes, it's definitively a system failure, probably a non binary
compatibility with the shared libs used by digiKam.

Try to run digiKam in GDB to see if more info can be found from the origin :

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#linux-host

https://www.digikam.org/contribute/#linux-host-1

Best

Giles Caulier

Le dim. 11 mai 2025 à 06:23, zanella at umich.edu <dzgoblue at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> I have a system running fedora that I use for digikam. It's been running well for years.
> OS was horribly out of date plus I wanted some of the new dk features, so I updated the OS.
> All interim updates worked until I got to FC41. Now, when I launch digikam (version 8.6 was pre-compiled on the FC distros), I get the splash screen then it spits out an error "stack smashing detected".
>
> Nothing useful in searches on this and other forums. ABRT indicates something different, "pthread kill implementation". So...this may be an FC41 issue as there are other apps reporting the same pthread error.
>
> Tried renaming .config dir in case there were some incompatibilities. strace doesn't tell me anything useful.
> full un-install/re-install of dk (from the distros). Made a half-hearted attempt to compile from source but I really don't have a proper development enviro setup on this system. (plus I'm a little rusty in that dept).
>
> I'm hoping someone has an idea to get it going again because I'm not looking forward to re-installing the OS. Thanks.