[KPhotoAlbum] Kphotoalbum loading of old database fails with Apple X11 server

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

That does indeed sound strange. I would personally try and cut in the 
index.xml file, to see if I could fine something strange with it.

Perhaps there are some non-latin1 characters that messes things up.
On Wednesday 03 May 2006 11:31, Shawn Willden wrote:
| This is a weird one.  Maybe someone can give me an idea about where to
| start looking.
|
| After successfully building kphotoalbum from SVN on OS X 10.4 using the
| Fink KDE and the Apple toolchain, I find that it will run with either a new
| database, or on a remote X11 server, but not with an existing database on
| Apple's X11 server.
|
| I was building and testing while logged into the iBook remotely from my
| Linux box, so as not to interfere with my wife's use of her iBook.  After
| kphotoalbum built, I ran it and it came up fine, read the database (noting
| that it was out of date because it was from KimDaBa, not KPhotoalbum) and
| allowed me to work with my photos.  I saved the database, so it's now in
| the new format.
|
| Then I tried to run it on my wife's computer, using Apple's X11 server. 
| The splash screen came up, said "Loading Database" and just hung there. 
| After 30 minutes I killed it.
|
| Next I tried running it with --demo.  It ran fine on the iBook, with Apple
| X11.
|
| Next I moved my database out of the way, and allowed it to create a new
| database by scanning the images.  That took a while (as expected with 8000
| images) but worked fine.  I closed kphotoalbum and reopened it with the new
| database.  No problems.
|
| Finally, I put my old database back and tried running on the iBook, with
| the local X server.  It hung at the splash screen.  I ran it again with the
| remote X server on my Debian Linux box.  That works.
|
| Any ideas?  I'm also asking on the Fink mailing list.
|
| I'm wondering if it's related to other KDE services like DCOP, etc.  I
| don't really have any understanding of those, but it has appeared to me on
| occasion that KDE apps connect (somehow) to the KDE system on the machine
| with the X server, and not necessarily to the system on the machine
| actually running the app.  Does that make *any* sense?
|
| Thanks,
|
| 	Shawn.
|
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