darktable crashes

Software darktable
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I use darktable 5.0.0 on Win 11 pro 64bits.
It started crashing after I did the following:

  • renamed C:\Users\AenJ\AppData\Local\darktable to darktable-old-07
  • restarted darktable
  • successfully imported Lightroom Keywords.20250126b.txt
  • imported a folder I have imported many times before. Except that I changed the .dng files in that folder by ordering Lightroom to write metadata and previews into them.
  • importing seems to be alright but when I click on a picture darktable disappears.
  • I have no problem viewing any of the the files in FastStone image viewer for what it’s worth.
  • I have commandline started as darktable -d perf
  • in the AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\darktable directory I find this folder:
    Cached_v5_kernels_for_AMDAcceleratedParallelProcessinggfx803_35840PALHSAIL
  • when importing a different folder darktable appears stable

Please advise how to proceed…

  • I saw that commandline starting with darktable -d all is probably better?
  • is the debug info in that folder?
  • what more information should I provide?

Regards,
Jetze

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Please start with the arguments -d common, then reproduce the crash, then upload both the output of the terminal and any generated crashlog.

Do you have a GPU on your system and are you using OpenCL? If yes, try disabling it and do the above again.

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Thanks, do have a GPU and do use OpenCl, will take a bit of time and report back!

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  • Opened Windows Command Line
  • Went to darktable\bin
  • Started darktable
  • Imported the pictures from the ‘problems’ folder
  • Seems alright till I scroll just one line down… crash

On the terminal I don’t get any feedback after the crash… see .png

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In C:\Users\AenJ\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\INetCache\darktable no new data appeared…

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Since darktable 5.0 the default location is: C:\Users\[username]\Documents\Darktable\darktable-log.txt

– faq | darktable

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Right, thumbs up for the help!!!

I have found out there are a couple of .dng’s there being the result of combining .dng’s into a pano. When I exclude those files I have no problem.

The darktable-log.txt might be changed as I opened darktable multiple times through the command line and the last time didn’t have a crash:
darktable-log.txt (933.3 KB)
(think new lines are appended though)

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Then those files or their metadata are causing the crash. You might need to share them so someone could look into it.

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