[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#1034310: [digikam] [Bug 466170] Digikam 7.9.0 (and 7.8.0) crashes on startup

[Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Steve,


Am Mittwoch, 26. April 2023, 05:49:03 CEST schrieben Sie:
> On Tuesday, April 25, 2023 12:50:39 P.M. CDT Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 25. April 2023, 03:51:44 CEST schrieben Sie:
> > > I'd be interested to know if the issue persists on your system after
> > > upgrading.
> > 
> > Yes, it repros always.
> 
> OK.
> 
> > -- System Information:
> > Debian Release: 12.0
> > 
> >   APT prefers testing-security
> >   APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (105,
> > 
> > 'testing')
> > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> > Foreign Architectures: i386
> > 
> > Kernel: Linux 6.1.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/6 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
> > Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
> > LANGUAGE=de:en_US
> 
> I'm still not able to reproduce the issue.  Today I was trying with the same
> locale as you (de_DE.UTF-8).   I have seen issues in the past with certain
> locales -- typically in software that isn't careful enough and gets into
> trouble when a locale switches the period and comma in number formats.


Be aware that upstream also was unable to repro the issue and finally they 
managed to understand and fix the problem by the traces I was able to 
generated.


> Even though I wasn't able to reproduce the problem here, it would be
> interesting if you can try with locale set to en_US for example:


There is no change if I unset LANG:


rd at h370:~/tmp.nobackup$ unset LANG
rd at h370:~/tmp.nobackup$ digikam
digikam.facedb: Cannot found faces engine model "shapepredictor.dat"
digikam.facedb: Faces recognition feature cannot be used!
digikam.facedb: Cannot found faces engine DNN model 
"openface_nn4.small2.v1.t7"
digikam.facedb: Faces recognition feature cannot be used!
kf.xmlgui: Unhandled container to remove :  Digikam::DigikamApp
ASSERT: "!isEmpty()" in file /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/QtCore/qlist.h, 
line 363
21 -- exe=/usr/bin/digikam
13 -- platform=xcb
11 -- display=:0
16 -- appname=digikam
17 -- apppath=/usr/bin
9 -- signal=6
11 -- pid=459194
17 -- appversion=7.9.0
20 -- programname=digiKam
31 -- bugaddress=submit at bugs.kde.org
KCrash: crashing... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = digikam path = /usr/bin pid = 459194
KCrash: Arguments: /usr/bin/digikam 
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libexec/drkonqi


[1]+  Stopped                 digikam
rd at h370:~/tmp.nobackup$ 


> I have no idea where else to look.  Given that no-one else has reported
> this, I'm leaning towards downgrading the severity to keep digikam in the
> upcoming release.


That is certainly and option. For me as a user it would be helpful if you 
would highlight in the changelog that I get during the upgrade the information 
to disable the splash screen if they run into this issue.


Alternatively you could apply the bugfix

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