Hi, I’m a brand new user of Darktable. I succesfully loaded it on my laptop yesterday and imported thousands of files. (actually tens of thousands) that may be my problem.
now every time I try to run DT v5.4 it starts, displays a ‘startup’ screen in the lightroom, where I can clearly see in the lower graphical display, then crashes.
I have uninstalled and re-installed the program several times this afternoon, to no avail.
I have also installed it on my desktop machine with a problem.
I have a suspicion the data file is corrupted in some way. I let it import literally my entire directory of images while I went about doing other things. The problem only occurred post this operation.
I get no messages, nothing. it just closes down after a few seconds.
I suspect someone is going to tell me I did something wrong with this procedure. I can accept that.
Can someone help me with tis problem without reverting to lots of scripting. I don’t have a clue about scripting. Too old.
I think if I can find where the database of filmstrips is kept and just delete it and start again, I can fix it.
I use Linux (Mint) and have been building darktable from nightly builds for well over a year without a problem. About a week ago I started having problems similar to yours that were traced back to an updated Exiv2 file that was unstable. That file also caused apps like gthumb and pix to crash on start.
Exiv2 has been updated but there are still problems because CMake does not think the new Exiv2 is current. I am still unable to build darktable but am able to use appimages - which I couldn’t for a few days.
Sorry I can’t be of more help but if you are using Linux you may want to look at your Exiv2 file.