I realize that I have not accurately described the manner in which digikam crashes. When I first encountered this problem I had reset the digikam configuration, but the old digikam database files were present. Since then, I have attempted to solve the problem by removing both the configuration files, as well as the database files. Now digikam still crashes, but in a slightly different manner than before: at first run digikam attempts to create a database, and after working through a few of the directories it crashes before completing the database. On subsequent runs the digikam splash screen appears quickly followed by a set of progress bars detailing its progress on creating the database, unfortunately it always crashes midway through.
-Max
