[Darktable-users] darktable crashes when exporting to tif file.

[Leonard Evens]

I am running darktable 1.4.2 under Fedora 20.

Typically, after I finish processing an image in darkroom, I switch to
lightable and try to export it as a 16 bit tiff image. This has worked
in the past, but recently it started crashing when I tried to do so.

It doesn't happen every time, but it happens often enough to make it
very difficult to proceed.

Can anyone suggest what I should do?

[Patrick Shanahan]

Post by Leonard Evens
I am running darktable 1.4.2 under Fedora 20.
Typically, after I finish processing an image in darkroom, I switch to
lightable and try to export it as a 16 bit tiff image. This has worked
in the past, but recently it started crashing when I tried to do so.
It doesn't happen every time, but it happens often enough to make it
very difficult to proceed.
Can anyone suggest what I should do?

Look for patterns.
Does it barf on the same/similar images?
Is image size a factor?
Are the images raw and/or all from same camera?
Have you perform a particular operation on *only* the "barf"
images?
Have you tried trouble-shooting, ie: "darktable -d all" and looking at the
logs?

fwiw: I have processed > 20,000 raw images in the past year and can count
the number of "crashes" in single digits and cannot ascribe them *only* to
darktable.

Have you tried the latest git? I constantly update to latest git with
*very* few problems.

[Michael Below]

Am So 26 Okt 2014 14:03:51 CET

Post by Leonard Evens
I am running darktable 1.4.2 under Fedora 20.
Typically, after I finish processing an image in darkroom, I switch to
lightable and try to export it as a 16 bit tiff image. This has
worked in the past, but recently it started crashing when I tried to
do so.

...

Post by Leonard Evens
Can anyone suggest what I should do?

Try running darktable from a command line to get some kind of error
message. If there is no output, try it with the -d all option.

And maybe try to remember what may have changed since it worked
flawlessly. Did you install any Fedora updates?

Cheers
Michael

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