Ok, I tried to start with kipi-plugins removed, but no luck. My images reside in my home directory, which is an ordinary ext3-partition.
The last lines in the output from strace -o digikam.log digikam look like: stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/calendar", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 57399}, NULL) = 0 write(13, ":\0\1\0l\1\2\0000\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 58) = 58 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 58497}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/calendar/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 60679}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "A\0\1\0m\1\2\0007\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 65) = 65 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 61649}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/calendar/local", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 64263}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "@\0\1\0n\1\2\0006\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 64) = 64 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 67080}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/calendar/local/system", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 69788}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "G\0\1\0o\1\2\0=\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 71) = 71 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 71034}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/calendar/views", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 73219}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "@\0\1\0p\1\2\0006\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 64) = 64 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 74227}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/mail", {st_mode=S_IFDIR| 0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 76494}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "6\0\1\0q\1\2\0,\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 54) = 54 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 77523}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/mail/config", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 79914}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "=\0\1\0r\1\2\0003\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 61) = 61 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 82573}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/mail/local", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 84580}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "<\0\1\0s\1\2\0002\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 60) = 60 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 85584}, NULL) = 0 time([1152209945]) = 1152209945 stat64("/home/martin/Pictures/martin/.evolution/mail/local/.#evolution.sbd", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0 select(14, [13], NULL, NULL, {0, 0}) = 0 (Timeout) gettimeofday({1152209945, 88228}, NULL) = 0 write(13, "L\0\1\0t\1\2\0B\0/home/martin/Pictures/"..., 76) = ? ERESTARTSYS (To be restarted) --- SIGINT (Interrupt) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGINT +++ Martin On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 22:48 +0000, allee wrote: > can't reproduce here too. > > can you try > > strace -o digikam.log digikam > > and when digikam hangs, check the end of digikam.log > what the last log entries are? > On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 22:48 +0000, allee wrote: > can't reproduce here tOn Wed, 2006-07-05 at 22:48 +0000, allee wrote: > can't reproduce here too. > > can you try > > strace -o digikam.log digikam > oo. > > can you try > > strace -o digikam.log digikam > > Further try to remove kipi-plugins to check if you suspect > is right that kipi-plugins are the cause of this bug. > > Achim > -- digikam does not start https://launchpad.net/bugs/51887 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs