[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#759517: Info received (Bug#759517: Info received (digikam: When starting digikam it searches for new pictures and then nothing more happens.))

[Jürgen Leibner]

On Tue, 16 Sep 2014 19:57:04 +0200 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?J=FCrgen?= Leibner 
<2010jl at gmx.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2014 09:06:18 +0200 Massis Sirapian <msirapian at free.fr> 
> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I've just solved this bug or at least identified the culprit. It's 
> > Gstreamer.
> > 
> > So what I did:
> > 
> > apt-get install phonon-backend-vlc
> > dpkg -r  phonon-backend-gstreamer:amd64
> > 
> > in systemsettings, the phonon engine was automatically switched to the 
> > only one available, VLC.
> > 
> > And now digikam starts normally.
> > 
> > I believe it's linked to this bug: 
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=760663
> > 
> > and they say that next phonon package update should fix it. In the 
> > meanwhile, using another backend is a good workaround.
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > Massis
> 
> I did the same but it doesn't solve the problem.
> It hangs after telling that it reads the database.
> 
> So still unusable ... 
> 
> Regards
> Jürgen Leibner
> 
> 

These days I started a new try to see if something changed after version 
upgrades of digikam.
I started digikam as usual ... and it crashes as usual.
I moved the .db files out of the way and started again ... it asks for the 
place where the pictures are and then behaves normal.
No crash so far.
I can start it again and close and start again. It works.
I changed the phonon-backends from vlc to gstreamer and back but no crash 
and no hanging, it works with both. I decided to use vlc because amarok 
plays sound with it while it does not with gstreamer.

While playing around with digikam it crashes in one situation wich I 
reported then under
Bug#764321: digikam crashes when a video file of type 'Apple QuickTime movie' 
is in an Album


Regards
Jürgen Leibner