Bug 6304

Summary: Digikam fails to write metadata to image files when changes are made.
Product: Mageia Reporter: Parsifal Herzog <parsifal.herzog>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Angelo Naselli <anaselli>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: major    
Priority: Normal CC: anaselli, marja11, olivier.delaune
Version: 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Source RPM: digikam-2.6.0-0.rc.6.mga2.src.rpm CVE:
Status comment:
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 6375    

Description Parsifal Herzog 2012-06-03 11:01:06 CEST 
Description of problem:

When adding a tag or making other metadata changes, Digikam updates its database, but is unable to write the metadata to the files. It seems to use the Batch Queue Manager to do this in the background, but the BQM makes no progress. A message appears "Writing Metadata to files", with a progress bar that never advances. The message also cannot be cancelleld, and when quitting Digikam, a "Finishing Tasks" box appears that never finishes, although you can cancel that box and Digikam will quit.

A search on bugs.kde.org: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=295263
finds an apparent fix for this. Also, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5197 may be the same bug, but failed image rotation is the symptom

I am reporting as a new bug because bug 5197 asks for a report for Mageia 2, and failure to write metadata is much more serious problem - without metadata being written to files, I would have to abandon Digikam.

I am asking that the upstream fix be released for Mageis 2 ASAP.



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

digikam-2.6.0-0.rc.6.mga2

How reproducible:

Always happens.

Apply a tag or change some other metadata in one or more images, while Digikam is configured to write metadata to files.

Steps to Reproduce:

1. In Settings/Configure Digkam, under "Metadata" check "Image Tags" in the "Write this Information to the Metadata" section. Close the dialog
2. Select an image, and apply a tag to it, using the right side Captions/Tags sidebar.
3.The tag will be applied, but within a second or two, the "Writing Metadata to files" message will pop up, and will not progress or be cancellable.
Comment 1 Olivier Delaune 2012-06-08 06:48:05 CEST 
Is this bug still valid with the final version (2.6.0) actually available in the
Testing repository? Could you test it, please?

CC: (none) => olivier.delaune

Angelo Naselli 2012-06-08 09:49:49 CEST

CC: (none) => anaselli

Comment 2 Parsifal Herzog 2012-06-08 10:49:17 CEST 
I have tested, and it seems this bug is fixed in Digicam 2.6.0, Thank you.
Also bug 5197 is fixed.
Marja Van Waes 2012-06-08 11:19:04 CEST

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => anaselli

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2012-06-08 12:29:04 CEST 
(In reply to comment #2)
> I have tested, and it seems this bug is fixed in Digicam 2.6.0, Thank you.
> Also bug 5197 is fixed.

Angelo,

Can you please assign this bug to QA, and write a proposed advisory (include that the update fixes bug 6304 and bug 5197)

Thanks :)
Comment 4 Angelo Naselli 2012-06-08 13:24:48 CEST 
Already get an agreement with QA team how to manage this update. It's WIP :)
I will change the bug status as soon as i've tested digikam (I'm not the one who submitted it...)
Angelo Naselli 2012-06-08 14:19:27 CEST

Blocks: (none) => 6375

Angelo Naselli 2012-06-08 14:20:22 CEST

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED