Bug 124670

Summary:	kde crash on desktop right click
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdesktop	Reporter:	marseillai <cyrilb856>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Faure <faure>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME
Severity:	crash	CC:	finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	kdesktoprc before renaming it

Description marseillai 2006-03-31 21:31:54 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.2)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

kde crashes with right click on desktop file. Kicker, Kdesktop crash, only GTK applications works. I have to kill kdm and launch it again to solve the problem. I think it deal with the fact i have a usb hard drive. Indeed it seems that hard drive sleep wake up wich oldly happend on desktop right clic doesn't work. It does only with a desktop's file right click if I go in ~/Desktop in konqueror it works fine.
tell me if you need log file and how i can get them...

Comment 1 Philip Rodrigues 2006-03-31 22:32:24 UTC

When kdesktop and kicker crash, you should get a crash dialog. On the backtrace tab of that dialog, you get a backtrace. Please paste it here.

Comment 2 marseillai 2006-03-31 23:53:12 UTC

there's no crash dialog! after a new try only kdesktop crash. But i have to launch it again and no crash dialog. i'll try to launch it in a konsole and look what happend.

Comment 3 marseillai 2006-04-01 00:30:41 UTC

kdesktop gives no output in konsole after crash. perhaps it's not him who crash. i'm open to suggestion. the bug is quite easily reproductible so ask for details...

Comment 4 Philip Rodrigues 2006-04-02 00:28:32 UTC

If you don't get a crash dialog, how do you know that it's kdesktop which crashed?

Comment 5 marseillai 2006-04-02 09:36:53 UTC

Because when it crashes after many test i've see that if i kill kdesktop and relaunch it works.

Comment 6 Philip Rodrigues 2006-04-02 19:00:26 UTC

Create a new user, and run KDE with that user. Does the same behaviour occur?

Comment 7 marseillai 2006-04-02 23:47:43 UTC

it seems it works fine with a new user account! i try to give him write acces on hard drive disk and it works too.
so it cames from my config file for kdesktop? but before with 3.5.1 it worked and my 3.5.2 is an upgrade ....

Comment 8 Philip Rodrigues 2006-04-04 11:36:24 UTC

Presumably it's to do with your config files then. Try renaming ~/.kde/share/config/kdesktoprc, restart KDE and see if the bug still occurs. If it does not, please attach your kdesktoprc file.

Comment 9 Stefan Lampert 2006-04-06 23:29:35 UTC

i removed the kdesktoprc and the bugs still occurs.

Comment 10 marseillai 2006-04-07 12:40:54 UTC

Created attachment 15505 [details]
kdesktoprc before renaming it

this is the kdesktoprc before i rename it! and after that it continue to crash.
may be rely to this bug :
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/udev/+bug/37589 because it happens
only when my usb hard drive is sleeping.

Comment 11 Philip Rodrigues 2006-04-07 13:02:23 UTC

Stefan, do you also have a USB hard drive? Does the bug still occur for you with a new user account? Do you get a backtrace? Can you confirm that it's kdesktop crashing, and not some other app (say, X)?

Comment 12 Stefan Lampert 2006-04-07 16:46:52 UTC

Well, i created a new user and there is no crash. 

i think its kdesktop crashing. because when killing and restarting kdesktop  it works again.

no backtrace at all. 


i have no USB HDD, but i got a USB HUB, with a mouse, BT-stick and a cardreader (empty) on it.

Comment 13 stefnn 2006-04-08 18:13:31 UTC

hm, maybe same here? That's what I am experiencing now:
(kde 3.5.2 on gentoo amd64 - kopete 11.1 bundled with 3.5.2)


Right click on desktop icons seems to work fine as long as I don't have kopete running. (so far my experience)

but when I have kopete running in systray (have to check if I's important to be connetected to some of the networks) and I rightclick a folder on the desktop no popup appears but instead the kopete icon in the systray gets transpartent(?) (.. or at least no longer updateded, as kopete is no longer responding) and desktop does not respond either.
If I killall kopete, everything is fine again...

Comment 14 Arkemath 2006-04-09 00:12:13 UTC

Hi,

I confirm what stefnn said. 

My KDE 3.5.2 packages are from kubuntu and I use the version of Kopete shipped with it.

A workaround I found was to wait until the balloon infos popup over the icon on which you wanna right-click, then, right-click. I prevents the freeze.

Comment 15 Xushi 2006-05-02 22:46:11 UTC

Happens with me. I have a firewire hard drive, with HAL and automount working. Konqueror, kfmclient, desktop all freeze along with kopete. All i need to do is just kill kopete and it's all back to normal.

 I'm emerging gdb now, and will attach it to kopete's pid.

Comment 16 Stefan Lampert 2006-05-09 16:46:39 UTC

i can confirm what xushi said. when the bug occurs, just kill kopete and all works again.

Comment 17 nico rico 2006-05-12 20:21:16 UTC

I can confirm this:
Kdesktop does not crash on RMB click, it freezes i.e you have to kill it.  Closing Kopete seems to have fixed the problem so it must be related to that somehow.  The desktop will also freeze in konqueror on RMB click due to this.

Comment 18 marseillai 2006-05-19 18:20:58 UTC

I can confirm that killing kopete stop the freezes.
May be this bug should be rename as kopete bug ?

Comment 19 marseillai 2006-05-21 10:28:00 UTC

report here as a kopete bug : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=127749

Comment 20 FiNeX 2009-01-02 20:32:27 UTC

Bug closed. Kdesktop is no more mantained.