Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 180360
digikam won't accept new pictures or allow overwrites
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:23 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060124 Firefox/1.5.0.1 Description of problem: Reported on digikam's site, they requested report here. After yum update to kde 3.5.1, DigiKam refuses new photos or overwrites, although existing photos may be modified (i.e. text added). Example of attempt to overwrite: Access denied. Could not write to digikamalbums://%2Fhome%2Fbob%2Pictures@/New%20Year%202006/dscn0349.jpg All photos are maintained in /home/bob and all permissions are normal. New photos copied/pasted into folders are ignored by DigiKam. Did try 'chmod 777 /usr/bin/digikam', got permission change but no difference. Have removed hidden /home folders, then yum remove digikam, yum install digikam - but missing something as all settings return without reinputting. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open DigiKam, select 'add images', select existing and new images from /home/bob/Pictures. 2. 3. Actual Results: Overwrite of existing photos will fail with above error New pictures will return "this picture isn't stored on the local host. click on this label to load it" - clicking does nothing. Clicking on the overwrite button returns no result. Expected Results: Overwrite should have replaced the existing album pic with itself, new pics should have been added. Additional info: digikam version 0.8.1 using kde 3.5.1-0.1.fc4 May not be related, but digikam handbook not accessable - returns: There is no documentation available for /digikam/index.html.
1. "Clicking on the overwrite button returns no result." It returns result, but thumbnail isn't refreshed so you don't see it, if you try to view overwriten picture you will see the new one. That's digikam bug: http://bugs.kde.org/113797 2. Yes, currently there isn't documentation (in FE) for digikam.
1. Afraid that's not the case. Attempted to overwrite dscn0356.jpg (example) - properties show 'modified 1/8/2006', 'accessed 2/8/2006' - While attempting to overwrite, each time would get the same error "access denied" (see above). Also, when trying to view dscn0358.jpg - dscn0365.jpg which are in the same album, digikam refuses to recognize them and right-clicking on each pic and choosing digikam for viewing simply stalls, however can be viewed with any other viewer such as Kuickshow, Kview, Gwenview, Gimp & Showfoto. Digikam also will not create any new albums. Update to digikam today resulted in no change.
Could you create a new user in your system, log into it and then try use digikam? FYI Access denied message isn't releated with /usr/bin/digikam, but probably digikam can't write to digikam's databse (digikam3.db file) or some directories in your home directory.
You're on target with that. Under a new user, digikam acts correctly. Now, I'll have to do some research to find which files are involved. Thanks!
chmod -R 777 on /home/username/pictures did the trick. Thanks again!