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

[Steve Robbins]

I’ve just uploaded new version with upstream patch for the splash screen.  Would love to know I how it works on your system. 

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> On Apr 26, 2023, at 8:24 AM, Steve Robbins <steve at sumost.ca> wrote:
> 
> I understood that upstream fixed a splash screen bug from your traces.  I do plan to look into applying that patch.  
> 
> But I thought that even after disabling the splash screen you were seeing a second crash?  That is what I’m trying to figure out. 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>>> On Apr 26, 2023, at 1:24 AM, Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de> wrote:
>>> 
>> 
>> 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
>> 
>> https://invent.kde.org/graphics/digikam/-/commit/28977ed2aac8a3575b979725e3141dd94b104833
>> 
>> to the Debian package. I can test if it fixes the problem for me.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Rainer
>> 
>> --
>> Rainer Dorsch
>> http://bokomoko.de/
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