DT 5.0 No new tag possible

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I installed DT 5.0 (Linux Mint 21.3 Virginia; ppa), created a new database as I had restructured my photos anyway and then imported them.
Now I wanted to create a new tag for new pictures, but this does not seem to be possible. I create the new tag and click on New. The entry disappears, but the tag I entered does not appear in the list.
What am I doing wrong?
Addendum: On my other PC in DT 4.8.0 the procedure works without any problems.
Greetings
Thomas

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Hi, you say you “created a new database as I had restructured my photos anyway”, are you sure your user has write access to ~/.config/darktable and also to the folder(s) where your photos are stored?

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That was already my assumption. Yes, I have read and write permissions with my user in the directories mentioned.

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Do you get any errors on the console?

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which ppa are we talking about here?

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I’ve installed from ppa:ubuntuhandbook1/darktable.

I get these errors when I start DT from the console. I then looked at the access rights of the DB files and not just the directories as before. I realized that I only had read access to the data.db. I adjusted these and now it works.
So far, but not so good for me. Because I would like to know what I did wrong in my process.
I have a suspicion: I previously had V.4.8.1, where everything worked so far. Then I installed V.5.0.0, but did not call it, but renamed the library.db before, because I wanted to start with an empty db. However, I didn’t think about the data.db, i.e. it was still from the previous version. Should I have renamed it as well?

  1. sqlite3 error: ./src/gui/presets.c:89, function dt_gui_presets_init(), query “DELETE FROM data.presets WHERE writeprotect = 1”: attempt to write a readonly database

  2. sqlite3 error: ./src/libs/modulegroups.c:1325, function _preset_retrieve_old_presets(), query “DELETE FROM data.presets WHERE operation = ‘modulelist’ AND op_version = 1”: attempt to write a readonly database

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… and why do the access rights change, just because I install a new version?

Thank you for your efforts to help! For me this is a great forum where people really try to help. I appreciate your efforts.

I wish everyone a happy and healthy 2025!

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They don’t, or at least shouldn’t. I see two possible causes:

  • something’s wrong with the deb file you got from the PPA. It’s not provided by the development team, but by a third party.
  • you may have made a mistake.

My local installation (built from source) creates the following files if I start with a clean config:

kofa@eagle:~/.config$ ls -l darktable
total 4148
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kofa kofa   26875 Jan  1 11:32 darktablerc
-rw-r--r-- 1 kofa kofa 2428928 Jan  1 11:32 data.db
-r-------- 1 kofa kofa       0 Jan  1 11:32 data.db-pre-5.1.0
-rw-r--r-- 1 kofa kofa 1769472 Jan  1 11:32 library.db
-r-------- 1 kofa kofa       0 Jan  1 11:32 library.db-pre-5.1.0
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kofa kofa    6877 Jan  1 11:32 shortcutsrc
-rw-rw-r-- 1 kofa kofa    6877 Jan  1 11:32 shortcutsrc.defaults

The only read-only files are the ‘pre-upgrade’ backups (0 bytes, as there was nothing to back up).

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