[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 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