Hi, I had thought that if I de-installed dt, removed the .config and .cache/darktable directories (and in fact every directory named darktable anywhere on the computer) this would remove the database and allow fresh install but maybe I was being naïve.
So in the absence of any info as to what else might be necessary to clean out old dt installs I've wiped the machine and done a fresh o/s install (this time Mint14==Ubuntu 12) switched it to the AMD fglrx-updates driver, added Pascal's unstable PPA and installed from that prior to any other actions. It still hangs on first initialisation without displaying a gui, leaving a darktable process running which can't be killed (short of a reboot). Running darktable -d all shows identical messages as before i.e last output is " creating new context d51020 [camera_control] loaded 1451 camera drivers." As I need to produce a couple of photos quickly for friends I then installed RawTherapee which worked flawlessly but reminded me of how much I now prefer dt. What might the process for further debugging the problem be? Rgds, Rob. -----Original Message----- From: Pascal de Bruijn [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 07 February 2013 19:00 To: Rob Z. Smith Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [darktable-devel] dt hanging at startup On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Rob Z. Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Currently starting up dt hangs without displaying gui, crashing or > generating system errors. Output from ‘darktable –d all’ is: > > [memory] at startup > > [memory] max address space (vmpeak): 165928 kB > > [memory] cur address space (vmsize): 165928 kB > > [memory] max used memory (vmhwm ): 5552 kB > > [memory] cur used memory (vmrss ): 5552 kB > > [defaults] found a 64-bit system with 6112500 kb ram and 4 cores > [fswatch_new] fswatch not supported on your platform [camera_control] > creating new context d51020 [camera_control] loaded 1451 camera drivers. > > I’m running Ubuntu 12.10 and have gone through the process of getting > rid of my GIT build and Pascal’s unstable repositories, running sudo > apt-get purge darktable, deleting everything I can think of to clean > up and reinstalling the standard Ubuntu version (which I think is > 1.0.5 although it doesn’t get far enough to display a version number). > Have we got a list of all the stuff that needs to go to get a clean > start (or some other way of getting back to a working state)? You can use darktable --version to get a version number. My Unstable PPA _currently_ ships ship a pre-release version of 1.1.3, which is likely the most stable version easily available. That said, you cannot just switch around in Darktable versions and not expect any problems. Newer Darktable versions may upgrade the database which may cause problems for older versions. So once you start using git master, there may be no turning back. Since I'm maintaining the 1.1.x branch I haven't used git master myself, so I'm not sure if that's the case now, but it's certainly something to keep in mind. Regards, Pascal de Bruijn The content of this email is private and confidential, and unless otherwise stated only the intended recipient may use the content of this email for its intended purpose. 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