Bug 108712

Summary:	khotkeys crashes for existing users but not a newly created user going from 3.4 to 3.4.1
Product:	[Unmaintained] khotkeys	Reporter:	mcquaid <mcquaidster>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description mcquaid 2005-07-07 19:36:55 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.1)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

First off, I'm using ubuntu not debian unstable but it was the closest listed.

I have my account already created using kde 3.4 and khotkeys was fine.  However since upgrading to 3.4.1 khotkeys is non fuctional and crashes if tried to launch:

mcquaid@mcquaid:~$ khotkeys
ERROR: Communication problem with khotkeys, it probably crashed.

But, on a new users account khotkeys works without issue.  So this seems to be a transition bug going from 3.4 to 3.4.1
I tried copying khotkeysrc and khotkeys_update from a working users account but it did not resolve the issue.  Please tell me what other files khotkeys uses in a users ~.kde dir as I did not want to delete my ~.kde dir to start from scratch to solve the issue.

Comment 1 Giovanni Venturi 2005-07-24 20:07:05 UTC

This happen to me too with KDE SVN 3.4.2. On laptop Centrino. I never used KHotKeys. I read an interesting article on a Magazine, but after configured KHotKeys it doesn't work so I tryed to see if khotkeys daemon was working... No, it wasn't. It crashes at KDE startup:

%gdb khotkeys
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /opt/kde34/bin/khotkeys
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread -1231493440 (LWP 5068)]
ERROR: Communication problem with khotkeys, it probably crashed.

Program exited with code 0377.
(gdb)

Comment 2 Chris White 2005-11-28 05:03:20 UTC

It seems that running kcmshell khotkeys does work, and it also appears to be that it is avaliable under Control Center->Regional & Accessibility as well.  I'm not sure if this was caused by running the previous command.

Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi 2005-11-29 16:11:27 UTC

Probably this happens because khotkeys is already running as a kded module and  
the standalone instance refuses to start giving a spurious error.  
  
Try for instance:  
$ dcop kded khotkeys quit  
$ khotkeys  
$ killall khotkeys 
$ dcop kded kded loadModule khotkeys  
$ khotkeys  
ERROR: Communication problem with khotkeys, it probably crashed.

Comment 4 Lubos Lunak 2005-11-30 17:25:04 UTC

Correct, you're not supposed to run it manually, there's usually a kded module used instead. Can you still reproduce the actual problem?

Comment 5 Giovanni Venturi 2005-11-30 19:42:39 UTC

This bug seems to be fixed with KDE 3.4.3.