Bug 288183

Summary: Folder navigation/selection hangs when adding new album collection.
Product: [Applications] digikam Reporter: Hans F. Schwing <hfschwing>
Component: Bundle-WindowsAssignee: Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: crash CC: anantapalani, caulier.gilles, Mathias.Homann, neffland
Priority: NOR    
Version: 2.3.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Microsoft Windows   
OS: Microsoft Windows   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In: 5.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: Screen shot

Description Hans F. Schwing 2011-12-04 10:08:02 UTC
Created attachment 66361 [details]
Screen shot

Version:           2.3.0 (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                MS Windows

When going to Settings>Configure>Collections>Local Collections and selecting Add Collection. The "Choose the folder containing your collection- digiKam" stops responding. The window has (Not Responding) in the title bar. The Window shows the Home Folder, Network and the Disk Drives along the left side nut no folders in the main window to select.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
As above.

Actual Results:  
The system hangs and I have to close the program by forcing it to close.

Expected Results:  
I should have seen a list of folders.

Running on Windows 7 64bit
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2011-12-06 13:26:57 UTC
The dialog where computer hang up is a dir select dialog from KDE, not digiKam.

It sound like KDE wait a response from kioslave to display content of computer.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 Ananta Palani 2011-12-14 11:25:38 UTC
Hmm.. did you install digiKam using the installer on SourceForge, or using the KDE installer? The 'browse for folder' window that opened in your screenshot is Dolphin, but the Windows folder browser should have opened instead.
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2012-06-22 08:50:38 UTC
Official digiKam 2.6.0 release is out since few days now :

http://www.digikam.org/drupal/node/656

Please, check if this entry still valid, or update report accordingly.

Thanks in advance.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 4 Ananta Palani 2013-06-10 12:50:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #0)
> Created attachment 66361 [details]
> Screen shot
> 
> Version:           2.3.0 (using KDE 4.7.0) 
> OS:                MS Windows
> 
> When going to Settings>Configure>Collections>Local Collections and selecting
> Add Collection. The "Choose the folder containing your collection- digiKam"
> stops responding. The window has (Not Responding) in the title bar. The
> Window shows the Home Folder, Network and the Disk Drives along the left
> side nut no folders in the main window to select.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> As above.
> 
> Actual Results:  
> The system hangs and I have to close the program by forcing it to close.
> 
> Expected Results:  
> I should have seen a list of folders.
> 
> Running on Windows 7 64bit

Hi Hans,

If you are still using digiKam could you give the new release a try and see if you are still experiencing problems? If you are no longer using digiKam please let us know as well. Here is a link to the new 3.1.0 installer:
   http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digiKam-installer-3.1.0-win32.exe
Comment 5 caulier.gilles 2013-10-31 07:52:50 UTC
digiKam 3.5.0 is out.

Can you give a fresh feedback about your report ? Crash still reproducible ?

Thanks in advance

Gilles Caulier
Comment 6 Mathias Homann 2014-07-14 15:20:40 UTC
Please reopen, this still happens with digikam 4.1.0 from opensuse buildservice rpms.
Comment 7 Ananta Palani 2014-07-14 15:26:58 UTC
(In reply to comment #6)
> Please reopen, this still happens with digikam 4.1.0 from opensuse
> buildservice rpms.

This was a Windows bug. What you are likely experiencing is something not related. Please file a new bug report.
Comment 8 Mathias Homann 2014-07-14 15:30:37 UTC
*facepalm*
Comment 9 caulier.gilles 2015-06-27 13:43:36 UTC
New digiKam 4.11.0 is available :

https://www.digikam.org/node/740

Can you reproduce the problem with this release ?

Gilles caulier
Comment 10 caulier.gilles 2015-07-06 07:39:15 UTC
digiKam 4.11.0 Windows installer is available for download :

http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digiKam-installer-4.11.0-win32.exe.mirrorlist
Comment 11 Jim Neff 2015-07-29 21:51:37 UTC
(In reply to Gilles Caulier from comment #10)
> digiKam 4.11.0 Windows installer is available for download :
> 
> http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digiKam-installer-4.11.0-win32.exe.
> mirrorlist

I'm experiencing this problem too on the same platform as the OP:  Windows 7 64 bit.

I've tried the latest version and each version back to 4.4.0 and they all do the same thing.  DigiKam was working fine until about 10 days ago.  I don't know what I did to make it not work anymore.  I went through the Window's program list and uninstalled everything that I have installed since then.  

From comment #2 I installed from here:
http://download.kde.org/stable/digikam/digiKam-installer-4.11.0-win32.exe.mirrorlist

The CPU is steady at 50%.

If I kill the application and related kde processes and restart it will display the thumbnail but as soon as I click on it it hangs.

What other information do I need to provide? 

Thanks in advance.
Comment 12 caulier.gilles 2015-08-22 06:35:39 UTC
digiKam 4.12.0 is out :

https://www.digikam.org/node/741

We need a fresh feedback using this release please...
Thanks in advance.
Comment 13 caulier.gilles 2016-05-28 18:23:04 UTC
With next digiKam 5.0.0, we will provide a fully cross-compiled version Windows under Linux where a lots of problems have been fixed.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/digikam/27033685570/in/dateposted-public/

The Windows installer is available here to test :

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7yq-xFihT0_SzhxVzF1RDhPbFE

Gilles Caulier