Version: 3.5.9 (using KDE 3.5.9) OS: Linux Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages kfmclient dies when I place the mouse cursor over the icon of a PDF file, whether I have opened it with webbrowsing or filemanagement profile. The window is closed and I have the bug backtrace window. Always reproduceble with different users. Does not happen if i click on the file icon quick enough to avoid showing the file preview. When clicking, the file opens ok. Does not happen with other file types. All files I've tested but pdf are ok and show the preview just normaly. I have all kde environment installed on a debian lenny/testing box. [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb68386c0 (LWP 19393)] [KCrash handler] #6 0xb7ef6424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #7 0xb7c45640 in raise () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #8 0xb7c47018 in abort () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #9 0xb7c8234d in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #10 0x00000013 in ?? () #11 0xbfc10a88 in ?? () #12 0x00000400 in ?? () #13 0xbfc1096c in ?? () #14 0x00000016 in ?? () #15 0xb6915ab2 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 #16 0xb7d584c8 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #17 0x00000017 in ?? () #18 0xbfc12cee in ?? () #19 0x0000001c in ?? () #20 0xb7d584e1 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #21 0x00000002 in ?? () #22 0xb7d585e4 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #23 0x00000022 in ?? () #24 0xb7d584e5 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #25 0x00000004 in ?? () #26 0xbfc10fb7 in ?? () #27 0x00000008 in ?? () #28 0xb7d584eb in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #29 0x00000005 in ?? () #30 0xbfc10970 in ?? () #31 0xbfc10d88 in ?? () #32 0xb7d584eb in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #33 0x00000005 in ?? () #34 0xbfc109c0 in ?? () #35 0xb7d584ec in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 #36 0x00000025 in ?? () #37 0xb6915ab2 in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 #38 0xb6915aac in ?? () from /lib/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 #39 0x00000000 in ?? ()
I guess you mean konqueror (kfmclient is just a small helper program that talks to konqueror). Your backtrace doesn't contain any information, unfortunately. You'd have to recompile kde with debug enabled to get a useful backtrace. But this is 3.5 anyway, which is getting a bit old compared to the latest 4.1.x release.
http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/How_to_create_useful_crash_reports Is what you would want to follow. But I can't confirm this in 3.5.9. And it doesn't look like the little popup preview has been implemented in 4, except hovering over a .pdf file certainly doesn't crash it. So I would suggest upgrading to 3.5.10, and seeing if that fixes your problem. You might have a misconfiguration somewhere.
The popup preview _is_ in KDE 4, at least trunk (future 4.2). You just have to enable tooltips in dolphin [hmm, seems the checkbox in konq doesn't work, I'll have to debug that].
Well, I know I should be using a newer version of kde (I do have kde 4.1.3 in other boxes) but this is a ltsp server with debian lenny, and 3.5.10 or 4.x packages are not available for lenny. I don't intend to use debian unstable on this machine. I did not compile any package. What should I do to have a useful backtrace? I have lots of -dbg packages related to kde, but I don't know which one should I have for that. Does anybody know what is the debbug package in debian for this case? I still can reproduce the error whith different users on the same machine, using the default kde configs for debian. What configs could be wrong?
It's debian's problem if they provide you with an older version of KDE, we can't do anything about that. In addition this bug definitely looks like a debian packaging problem. In any case we can't do anything with this bug in its current form.