Bug 155905

Summary:	Error message "KLauncher coult not be reached via D-BUS, error when calling start_service_by_desktop_path: empty"
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Daniele <danielekde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	faure
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	Dolphin error message

Description Daniele 2008-01-16 13:32:57 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.0)

Using last Kubuntu packages of KDE 4.0.0 I see this behaviour:
- Using dolphin columns view
- Click on a file and opening kwrite
- After some seconds I see the dialog as in my attachment.

I'll try to delete all .kde4 folder to reset all settings and re-tray but the result is the same.

Comment 1 Daniele 2008-01-16 13:33:30 UTC

Created attachment 23073 [details]
Dolphin error message

Comment 2 Pedro Morgan 2008-01-23 04:10:25 UTC

Experiencing exactly the same problem, however I'm opening  .html file with kate-kde4.

- Click on a file to open
- Focusing back into the dolphin window and the app appears frozen
- After some seconds there's error message
- Click OK makes things carry on as normal

Comment 3 Grissiom 2008-02-20 12:43:41 UTC

Yes, KDE 4.0.1 also has the same problem. My distro is OpenSUSE, all things updated.

Comment 4 Peter Penz 2008-02-21 10:40:05 UTC

Sorry, I cannot reproduce this (neither with KDE 4.0.0, 4.0.1 nor trunk). I'm also using the suse packages. Could you also temporary rename the .kde directory (not only .kde4), maybe there is some conflict with the KDE 3 installation? Thanks!

Comment 5 Grissiom 2008-02-22 10:16:29 UTC

Renaming .kde and .kde4 does not work on my box... The Konqueror in kde4 also has the same problem.

Comment 6 Peter Penz 2008-02-22 10:47:36 UTC

I've added David Faure on CC, as there are already 3 users having the same problem. @David: any hints for us?

Comment 7 Grissiom 2008-02-28 07:44:40 UTC

Now I'm using KDE4.00.63 and the problem doesn't appear with Kwrite. *but* when Dolphin invoke Kate, the same problem occurred. When I close Kate, the message "QDBusConnection received a message of type 2 that it shouldn't have" appeared in the terminal.

Comment 8 Grissiom 2008-03-01 23:54:36 UTC

Problem resolved in 4.00.64 (>= 20080228 "release 2.1"). Thx a lot ~;)

Comment 9 Marko Doda 2008-03-28 00:01:49 UTC

I get the same error message on log in when ktorrent.desktop is in the ~/.kde/Autostart directory. When i click OK KDE crashes.

Comment 10 Marko Doda 2008-03-28 00:14:11 UTC

Sorry that i post 2 comments in a row, just to say that ktorrent works perfect when i run it manually, only when i try to autostart it KLauncher shows this message.

Comment 11 Peter Penz 2008-04-24 08:24:17 UTC

*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.

Comment 12 Alexey Chernov 2008-05-12 18:04:37 UTC

The problem is there in KDE 4.0.4, too. I don't use KDE3, but when I open file with Kate it behaves the way it was written. Error message appears.

Comment 13 Dustin Steiner 2008-05-15 19:35:24 UTC

I have installed Fedora 9 with KDE 4.0.3 2 days ago and get the same error on opening kate via dolphin

"KLauncher could not be reached via D-Bus, error when calling start_service_by_desktop_path:
empty"

Comment 14 Peter Penz 2008-05-15 21:08:59 UTC

I've reopened the bug again but have reassigned it to kdelibs (hint for kdelibs: Dolphin uses KFileItem::run()).

Comment 15 David Faure 2008-05-16 18:49:08 UTC

Yes, I fixed this bug last week, it comes from the KDE3 (or ~/.kde) kwrite.desktop which has X-DCOP-ServiceType. The fix (ignoring that key) will be in 4.0.5 and 4.1.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 156339 ***