[KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum 4.1.1 crashes very frequently on Kubuntu 10.04 (lucid)

[Miika Turkia]

 Can someone else figure out the stack trace?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=247685

(It is under general component, not kphotoalbum and was a bit hard to search
for.)

theBro

On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 5:55 PM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the suggestion.  I "upgraded" to the SVN version. I started
> KPhotoAlbum, displayed all the thumbnails, then started selecting some
> (which I intended to delete). As I was doing this, after I had just selected
> another image, the KPhotoAlbum crashed. I submitted an error report (does
> LWP 12985 identify the report?) and restarted. This time it crashed
> immediately following the splash screen, but when I tried to submit a
> report, it said that there was not enough information to be useful. This is
> what it said about the crash:
>
> Application: kphotoalbum (SVN)
>
> KDE Platform Version: 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5)
>
> Qt Version: 4.6.2
>
> Operating System: Linux 2.6.32-27-generic x86_64
>
> Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
>
>  -- Backtrace:
>
> Application: KPhotoAlbum (kphotoalbum), signal: Aborted
>
> [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f10f7e8d7c0 (LWP 12984))
>
> Every time I tried to restart, it did the same thing.
>
>
> Using Synaptic, I then completely removed KPA, then disabled the PPA
> repository and reinstalled KPA 4.1.1 so I am at least back to where I was
> before.
>
>
> Any other hints?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> Murray
>
>
> --- On *Thu, 1/6/11, Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Miika Turkia <miika.turkia at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [KPhotoAlbum] KPhotoAlbum 4.1.1 crashes very frequently on
> Kubuntu 10.04 (lucid)
> To: "Murray Strome" <wmstrome at yahoo.com>
> Cc: "kphotoalbum" <KPhotoAlbum at kdab.net>
> Received: Thursday, January 6, 2011, 9:58 PM
>
>
> The development version is available from svn and has some crashes fixed.
> KPA web pages have instruction of downloading and compiling:
> http://kphotoalbum.org/index.php?page=download-svn
> http://kphotoalbum.org/index.php?page=compile
>
> There is also a PPA repository with more recent version of KPA packaged for
> Ubuntu:
> https://launchpad.net/~dominik-stadler/+archive/ppa<https://launchpad.net/%7Edominik-stadler/+archive/ppa>
>
> The crash can be analyzed from a backtrace if you are able to provide one.
> However, the newer version might already solve your problem (the latest
> crash sounds like it might be an exif parsing bug that was recently fixed).
>
> HTH,
> theBro
>
> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I find that KPhotoAlbum seems to crash regularly on my system. Is there a
> more stable version that I should be using? If so, what and how do I get it?
>
> I cannot see any specific pattern to the crashes. The most recent time, I
> had deleted some duplicate photos from the hard drive. I then asked it to
> rescan for photos and videos. It died. When I restarted, it was like
> starting from scratch. Whatever database had been created seemed to have
> been lost so it had to rebuild it.
>
> There are over 6,000 photos in the directory and its sub-directories.  I am
> using KPhotoAlbum 4.1.1 using KDE Development Platform 4.4.5 (KDE 4.4.5) on
> Kubuntu 10.04, which is the version which seems to be the latest in the
> repository.
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Murray
>
>
>
>
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