digiKam is leaking memory when updating thumbnails

[kolya]

When updating thumbnails on large number of photos digiKam quickly uses all memory and dies.

Similar problem have been reported for Fedora: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1023241

They've tracked the problem to memory leak in libpgf6. The leak has been patched but probably not released as a separate release. Fedora release a package based on svn revision.

It looks like similar issue had been discussed in kde mailing lists: http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/digikam-devel/2013-November/070004.html. The solution there is to use newer libpgf6, or use libpgf from digiKam source.

Thanks!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: libpgf6 6.12.24+ds1-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-18.32-generic 3.11.10.4
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.2
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Mar 12 01:41:46 2014
Dependencies:
 gcc-4.8-base 4.8.1-10ubuntu9
 libc6 2.17-93ubuntu4
 libgcc1 1:4.8.1-10ubuntu9
 libstdc++6 4.8.1-10ubuntu9
 multiarch-support 2.17-93ubuntu4
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-26 (290 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Linux Mint 15 "Olivia" - Release amd64 (20130520)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libpgf
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.