New build - Digikam will not start

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Hi,

Running Fedora 42 on a new build and have installed Digikam (8.6.0). Am finding it will not start properly. I have removed, reinstalled multiple times, deleted all configs etc.

Starting Digikam results in the ‘normal’ welcome to screen, go with default options for all. Get message advising minimal setup is complete and click finish.

My ~/Pictures folder is scanned, i get the initial startup screen and then this in the terminal window:


digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
WARNING: radv is not a conformant Vulkan implementation, testing use only.
qt.multimedia.ffmpeg: Using Qt multimedia with FFmpeg version 7.1.1 GPL version 3 or later
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
digikam.dnnmodelmanager: Cannot find DNN models path
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835879:ERROR:angle_platform_impl.cc(44)] ImageEGL.cpp:112 (operator()): eglCreateImage failed with 0x00003003
ERR: ImageEGL.cpp:112 (operator()): eglCreateImage failed with 0x00003003
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835893:ERROR:scoped_egl_image.cc(23)] Failed to create EGLImage: EGL_SUCCESS
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835896:ERROR:native_pixmap_egl_binding.cc(118)] Unable to initialize binding from pixmap
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835906:ERROR:ozone_image_backing.cc(309)] OzoneImageBacking::ProduceSkiaGanesh failed to create GL representation
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835908:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(255)] SharedImageManager::ProduceSkia: Trying to produce a Skia representation from an incompatible backing: OzoneImageBacking
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835911:ERROR:native_skia_output_device.cpp(261)] ProduceSkia() failed.
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835965:ERROR:raster_decoder.cc(1146)]   RasterDecoderImpl: Context lost during MakeCurrent.
[7372:7556:0429/120338.835997:ERROR:raster_decoder.cc(1146)]   RasterDecoderImpl: Context lost during MakeCurrent.
kf.xmlgui: Unhandled container to remove :  Digikam::DigikamApp
[7372:7556:0429/120338.905399:ERROR:shared_context_state.cc(885)] Failed to make current since context is marked as lost
[7372:7556:0429/120338.905413:ERROR:skia_output_surface_impl_on_gpu.cc(2264)] Failed to make current.
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Any ideas please?

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Hi @ponytrap,
How did you install digiKam? We recommend using the official AppImage from the digiKam site at https://www.digikam.org.

We’ve seen issues with flatpacks and other custom installs.

Cheers,
Mike

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Hi,

Thanks for the reply. I installed it from the Fedora official repos. Are there any disadvantages to using Appimage for Digikam pls?

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If i start Digikam with this ‘QTWEBENGINE_CHROMIUM_FLAGS=“–disable-gpu --disable-software-rasterizer” digikam’ it works.

So i’m guessing it is to do with my 9070 xt being too new?

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Hi @ponytrap,
We’ve seen a few people report this error. It’s due to a change in an upstream package digiKam uses. You have the correct work-around until the upstream package is fixed.

Cheers,
Mike

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Thank you for letting me know.