Digikam

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OpenSuse 12.2 - KDE - 32 Bit

In my installation, Digikam will not start.
I then tried using the console.

  • If I type digikam get:

  • predieri-PC: ~ # digikam

  • Illegal instruction

  • If I type digikam-caption “% c”% i get:

  • predieri-PC: ~ # digikam-caption “% c”% i

  • Illegal instruction

Any idea on why?
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.

John

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Hello,

First when you post computer text in the future, please use CODE tag around it: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/information-new-users/advanced-how-faq-read-only/451526-posting-code-tags-guide.html

Second, it looks as if you try to start Digicam as root. Please do not do that. Doing it from a terminal to see error messages is a good thing, but apart from it being not very clever to do things as root which do not require root pivileges, it is better that the same user (the one that has the problem) starts it from the terminal as the one that starts it in the GUI.

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The data shown are those of the console root, but the problem is the same with normal user console

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I understand, but you should never call such an application as root. And when you do (after all it is your system and you can of course do what you like with it), you should never show it here, because it can trigger less knowing people to to the same as you. And we have to warn other people not to do these sort of things.

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I realize this won’t help you a whole lot.

My test system is running 12.2 (upgraded via DVD from 12.1) x86_64 and KDE 4.9.1

Digikam 2.9 64 bit opens just fine from KDE Desktop folder icon as well as from a Konsole session as user (not root).

If you are running the stock KDE 4.8 , then you probably have Digikam 2.6 , as that appear to be the version in the OS distro.

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I have the same problem with starting digikam
“Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl” which means also “illegal instruction”

But:
my system is a little bit older: 32bit athlon-xp 2000+
but on my test-pc, an old intel-p4, it is running fine

Similar happens in gwenview, when I’m calling the Menue “Modules”: it crashes on my AThlon, on the P4 no problem

Both machines with opensuse 12.2, identical patchlevel. KDE, digikam and gwenview from the vanilla-distro, not from additional repos!

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Hi, welcome
How do you start digikam? Are you by any chance logged in on the desktop as root?

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I’m never ever logged in to the desktop as root! That’s an absolutely NOGO!

First I tried to start digikam via the KDE-menue. It failed!
Then, from a xterm, to have a chance to see an error-message. An there it was: “illegal instruction” (exactly: “Ungültiger Maschinenbefehl” in my german environment)

There must be something in digikam or in the deeps of the thousands libs, which is refusing to run on my old athlon. Like i said above: on my Pentium4-testmachine there is no problem with running digikam: same distro, same patchlevel, same desktop, same amount of memory, same user! nonroot-user!!!

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Just a guess, some apps require opengl support to run
I have encountered this for example in sketcup and blender.