I have a consistent, reproducible crash (seg fault) of KPhotoAlbum when I run Maintainance->Recreate Exif Search Database. I ran this Maintenance item first after adding folders and files to my collection and getting the message when starting KPA that it was necessary to do so. I have done many things chasing this problem, but the status now is that I removed the new folders and files from the collection, transfered from my backups the files exif-info.db and index.xml (from a time prior to my recent use of KPA).
Now KPA starts and appears to run OK, but it still crashes if I run Maintainance->Recreate Exif Search Database. I found on http://www.kphotoalbum.org/index.php?page=news this note: "New images was not correctly inserted into the exif database (thanks to Bart Visscher for a patch that fixes this.) Please rerun "Maintainance->Recreate Exif Search Database" to ensure your database it working again." I also observed that when a crash occurs the file exif-info.db gets rewritten to be about 3KB, contains the text "SQLite format 3"; the good file contains the text "This File contains an SQLite 2.1 database" I tried to generate a backtrace which the crash handler thinks would be useful, but have not been successful, even after over 2 hours of downloads of debug files. Testing this is complicated by the absence of complete documentation (there are instructions as to where the docs are, but they are not there, at least not functioning). Also, it appears that it is not possible to point KPA to another folder to experiment using some test jpg files. Only on installation can the folder name be given. If anybody here is using KPA, I would appreciate it if you could run Maintainance->Recreate Exif Search Database, look to see if SQLite2 or 3 is used, and offer any advice. I have a considerable amount of data entry invested in this program, and I would hate to have to replace it from scratch. When KPA is running, it is very convenient and friendly. Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
