I also have this problem. When, at first stratup, I configure the album's directories and Digikam starts to create the database, it crashes....If I launch digikam from Konsole, I've this output:
mirko@darkstar:~$ digikam QLayout: Cannot add null widget to QVBoxLayout/ digikam: Fatal IO error: client killed KCrash: Application 'digikam' crashing... sock_file=/home/mirko/.kde/socket-darkstar/kdeinit4__0 [1]+ Stopped digikam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org