Bug 303850

Summary:	Won't start on MS Windows if USB drive is mounted
Product:	[Applications] digikam	Reporter:	bdillahu
Component:	Portability-Runtime	Assignee:	Digikam Developers <digikam-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	alterechtschreibung, anantapalani, gmatht
Priority:	NOR
Version:	2.7.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Microsoft Windows
OS:	Microsoft Windows
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	2.8.0

Description bdillahu 2012-07-20 14:24:12 UTC

On Windows 7, 64bit, used the 2.7 *.exe installer.

All is fine if there are no external/USB drives mounted. If there is, then splash screen starts and then application dies and goes away.

Comment 1 John C. McCabe-Dansted 2012-08-27 04:30:05 UTC

I can confirm this bug. I am also using 2.7.0 on Windows 7 64bit. Iirc it crashed immediately after the splash screen said "Initializing main view". No crash report dialog appeared, unlike another bug I hit.

Comment 2 alterechtschreibung 2012-08-27 16:15:16 UTC

digiKam 2.5 works fine. The bug appears in 2.6 and 2.7. Really annoying bug. showfoto still works in the new versions.

Comment 3 Ananta Palani 2012-10-09 22:35:37 UTC

This has been fixed with 2.8.0 and 2.9.0 simultaneously released today for completeness. The issue was with KDE SC and was fixed somewhere between KDE SC 4.8.3 and 4.8.5. Sorry for the hassle! You can download digiKam 2.9.0 for Windows from here:

   http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam/2.9.0/digiKam-installer-2.9.0-win32.exe/download

Comment 4 Ananta Palani 2012-10-10 02:36:15 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> This has been fixed with 2.8.0 and 2.9.0 simultaneously released today for
> completeness. The issue was with KDE SC and was fixed somewhere between KDE
> SC 4.8.3 and 4.8.5. Sorry for the hassle! You can download digiKam 2.9.0 for
> Windows from here:
> 
>   
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/digikam/files/digikam/2.9.0/digiKam-
> installer-2.9.0-win32.exe/download

If you downloaded digiKam 2.9.0 before 3:30 a.m. GMT 2012/10/10 then you may have a problem running it due to reliance of glib component on debug dlls. Please download installer again which now contains correct glib component. Sorry for any hassle this might have caused!