Photos not available on startup

Software darktable
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I run Darktable 4.4.2 on Linux Mint 21.2 with decent hardware (see below) with the photos on a M2 SSD 2TB drive.
When I start DT and double click on a photo I get the message that the photo is currently not available. If I wait a minute or so they suddenly are available? I find this a bit odd and hope that somebody can provide a hint on how to solve this?

Hardware:
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 3900 (24) @ 3.100GH
GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER
Memory: 4773MiB / 32025MiB
SSD1: WD: WDS100T3X0C-00SJG0 size: 931.51 GiB
SSD2: Intel: SSDPEKNW020T8 size: 1.86 TiB

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Do you mount the 2nd disk st start up? Is it in your fstab?

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Thank you for replying!
it is in my fstab.

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Maybe I was wrong and it is not in my fstab. This is my fstab:

/etc/fstab: static file system information.

Use ‘blkid’ to print the universally unique identifier for a

device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices

that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).

/ was on /dev/nvme0n1p6 during installation

UUID=ba344428-cfc1-4649-b3de-7cd4c1943969 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

/boot/efi was on /dev/nvme0n1p1 during installation

UUID=0C79-BB9A /boot/efi vfat umask=0077 0 1

/home was on /dev/nvme0n1p7 during installation

UUID=1f77662d-4f0d-4ac0-adb5-9fb688151d60 /home ext4 defaults 0 2

swap was on /dev/nvme0n1p5 during installation

UUID=9ced2475-30db-4774-a97a-2f0ee373e257 none swap sw 0 0

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I have not mounted it manually it was just set up when I installed Linux Mint.

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If you restart and don’t open darktable, get into a terminal and issues the df -h command, is the disk mounted? If not, and the disk is internal and not external (sorry I assumed it was internal before), then add it to your fstab. If the disk is external, mount it before starting darktable.

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It is internal as I have two M2 slots on the motherboard. The df -h returns this after a reboot:
bengt@komplett:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 3,2G 2,2M 3,2G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p6 96G 38G 54G 42% /
tmpfs 16G 0 16G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5,0M 4,0K 5,0M 1% /run/lock
/dev/nvme0n1p7 167G 53G 106G 34% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p1 256M 34M 223M 14% /boot/efi
tmpfs 3,2G 92K 3,2G 1% /run/user/112
tmpfs 3,2G 104K 3,2G 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda2 4,6T 2,7T 1,7T 62% /media/bengt/Linux ext4
/dev/sdb2 7,3T 6,1T 1,3T 83% /media/bengt/Seagate Backup Plus Drive

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Hmm. I assumed the above is it?

Can you start darktable from the terminal darktable -d all and reproduce the problem, then post the output here?

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bengt@komplett:~$ darktable -d
Command ‘darktable’ not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install darktable

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No that is an external harddrive for Timeshift and backup of the /Home directory

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Maybe it has something to do that it is installed from Flatpak?

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you can do flatpak run org.darktable.Darktable -d all from the terminal and post the output here.

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I got extremely long reply… it is impossible to post it here. Any specifics you are looking for

bengt@komplett:~ bengt@komplett:~ flatpak run org.darktable.Darktable -d all
0.0013 application_directory: /app/bin
0.0023 darktable.datadir: /app/share/darktable
0.0023 darktable.plugindir: /app/lib/darktable
0.0024 darktable.localedir: /app/share/locale
0.0029 darktable.configdir: /home/bengt/.var/app/org.darktable.Darktable/config/darktable
0.0029 darktable.cachedir: /home/bengt/.var/app/org.darktable.Darktable/cache/darktable
0.0029 darktable.sharedir: /app/share
0.0030 darktable.tmpdir: /tmp
0.0030 [memory] at startup
0.0030 [memory] max address space (vmpeak): 121500 kB
[memory] cur address space (vmsize): 121500 kB
[memory] max used memory (vmhwm ): 25152 kB
[memory] cur used memory (vmrss ): 25152 kB
0.0032 new_xdg_data_dirs: (null)
Gtk-Message: 18:21:31.216: Failed to load module “xapp-gtk3-module”
0,0869 [init sql] library: /home/bengt/.var/app/org.darktable.Darktable/config/darktable/library.db, data: /home/bengt/.var/app/org.darktable.Darktable/config/darktable/data.db
0,4353 [sql] /run/build/darktable/src/common/tags.c:583, function dt_set_darktable_tags(): exec “DELETE FROM memory.darktable_tags”
0,4353 [sql] /run/build/darktable/src/common/tags.c:587, function dt_set_darktable_tags(): prepare “INSERT INTO memory.darktable_tags (tagid) SELECT DISTINCT id FROM data.tags WHERE name LIKE ‘darktable|%%’”
0,4362 [sql] /run/build/darktable/src/common/database.c:4629, function dt_database_start_transaction(): exec “BEGIN TRANSACTION”
0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-04/IMGP2101.JPG' (id: 1) is missing. 0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-04/IMGP2102.JPG’ (id: 2) is missing.
0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-04/IMGP2103.JPG' (id: 3) is missing. 0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2104.JPG’ (id: 4) is missing.
0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2105.JPG' (id: 5) is missing. 0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2106.JPG’ (id: 6) is missing.
0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2107.JPG' (id: 7) is missing. 0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2108.JPG’ (id: 8) is missing.
0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2109.JPG' (id: 9) is missing. 0,4362 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2114.JPG’ (id: 10) is missing.
0,4363 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2115.JPG' (id: 11) is missing. 0,4363 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2116.JPG’ (id: 12) is missing.
0,4363 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2117.JPG' (id: 13) is missing. 0,4363 [crawler] /media/bengt/SSD/foton/2003/2003-02-05/IMGP2118.JPG’ (id: 14) is missing.
^C 11,2332 [lighttable] expose took 0,0000 sec-nan% | -nan% | -nan% | 0,00%qbtable_full_redraw(): prepare “SELECT rowid, imgid FROM memory.collected_images WHERE rowid>=1 LIMIT 20” 29933"sh
bengt@komplett:~$

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The photos obvious is there in the right location but DT does not see them?

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Copy to pastebin and then post the link.

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Pastebin only allows 512 Kbyte…

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Seems like you should add the disk to your fstab. I don’t see it in there.

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I have uploaded th error codes to my dropbox…

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What kind of syntax would that be?

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This should work for Linux mint: disk - How to add an entry to fstab? - Ask Ubuntu