Hi cascagrossa
my workaround for this problem is (until the packages gets updated) :
Please care, that you do make a copy of all "productive" files before 
overwriting them!!!

- download source-code from exiv2-Homepage 
(http://www.exiv2.org/exiv2-0.17.1.tar.gz)
(Hint: Do NOT store it on a NTFS-Partition, it will not compile correctly. It 
took me some days to find out!!)
- gunzip exiv* ; tar xvf *
- cd exiv2-0.17.1
- ./configure --prefix $HOME/exiv2-0.17.1
- make ; make install
- save /usr/lib/libexiv2.so.4 (it's a symlink) 
- copy new library (via sudo or as root): cp 
$HOME/exiv2-0.17.1/lib/libexiv2.so.4.0.1 /usr/lib
-save old binary (/usr/bin/exiv2), and 
- copy new binary  cp $HOME/exiv2.017.1/bin/exiv2 /usr/bin 

start digikam, it will now start up correctly, and show all pictures correctly.
When starting digikam on a console, you'll see the failures, which probably 
have caused the crash of the buggy exiv2 (0.17). Even a lot of 
exiv-informations are displayed in digikam (I did not check, if some infos are 
missing).
--- snip ---
Warning: Directory ImageSubIfd0 has an unhandled next pointer.
Warning: Size 5308 of Exif.Nikon3.0x0091 exceeds 4096 bytes limit. Not decoded.
--- snap ---

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exiv2 0.17 (from ubuntu8.10) and linked Software (such as digikam, gimp/ufraw) 
crashed (vendor confirmed bug, update available)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292780
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