digikam had worked before with an album collection. Now, on start, digikam gives the error message: 'No album library path has been found in the configuration file. Giving up the schema updating process. Please try with an empty database, or repair your configuration.' After proceeding with 'ok', I tried to add a local collection in Settings->'configure digikam'. The previously used path (on main system harddisk) is remembered. When trying to add this collection path ('ok'), the message is: 'It was not possible to add a collection for the following paths: <name of path>'. There is write access to the path. Trying other path names also fails.
update to last 4.12.0 instead 3.5.0 and try again... 3.5.0 is very old now. Gilles Caulier
(In reply to Gilles Caulier from comment #1) > update to last 4.12.0 instead 3.5.0 and try again... > > 3.5.0 is very old now. > > Gilles Caulier updated to 4.12. Problem persists, no change in behaviour. What next? I am on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, by the way. Regards ... Peter Glassel
Follow instructions at "For hangs out or dysfunctions" section from https://www.digikam.org/contrib Gilles Caulier
(In reply to Gilles Caulier from comment #3) > Follow instructions at "For hangs out or dysfunctions" section from > https://www.digikam.org/contrib > > Gilles Caulier In the debug output there was a mention of database type 4 converted to 7. I removed the old database and digikamrc and started from scratch. Took quite a while to rebuild the database, but now everything works again.