| Summary: | KSnapshot Infinite fork bug (PrintScrn key shortcut) | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] ksnapshot | Reporter: | Shane Sanders <jss1228us> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Richard Moore <rich> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | arnaud.boulan, astro.umut.yildiz, bug, cchd, deldotdr, emdeck, jcampbell, jetta22, jmueller, kde, mc1784937, melchiade3, mss, pravdhan, razielmine, rdragsdale, ropesogm, rorochoo15, rpogomes, tyrerj |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 0.7 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Slackware | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Shane Sanders
2008-07-10 01:15:33 UTC
Happened to me before. Took all my memory before i could kill it. Is your bug simply that there's a new ksnapshot launched for each press of the key? or something more complicated? Richard, press printscreen 20 times in a row very fast, then sit back and watch the show, they will keep spawning way over 20. Of course, please save any work you might have, in my case it stopped a file system repair which caused a lot of data loss. The bug is very simple, it might not even be ksnapshot's . It could be just kde thinking we keep pushing printscreen, maybe it's Xorg. This only happened to me in Arch with kde 3.5.9 . This seems to be a duplicate of this bug: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162846 *** Bug 162846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 179314 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** This happened to me while running Kubuntu 8.04 in a VirtualBox Machine on Mac OSX 10.5. I was able to avoid a crash and continue working by moving the ksnapshot bin file, causing whatever was spawning it to fail: # mv /usr/bin/ksnapshot ~/STOPksnapshot Hope this helps anyone else who experiences this problem. -Dorian It also happened to me when I pressed the Print Screen button a few times successively. It printed the screenshot infinitely. I had another linux computer nearby and I logged in to my computer from that computer and used all the commands that I know to kill ksnapshot, but it did not work. I fresh installed Kubuntu 9.04 yesterday. Got Dragon player running and attempted to take a screen shot of a DVD playing from the optical drive to test the application (I need to take screenshots for work). Pressed PrtSc once, and KSnapshot went mad taking repeated screenshots, opening a new window each time. I could not stop the application. I closed Dragon Player, no joy, the screenshots, firing off several per second, reflected the changes on the screen but kept going. I could not shutdown the laptop (IBM Thinkpad Z61t) using the KDE menu, and it took some time holding down the power-off switch to get the the machine to stop. Not touching KSnapshot again, have to find some other screen capture application. Happened time ago in KDE 3.5, and just happened again pressing PrintScreen 3 times in KDE 4.2.3 with a fresh KDE configuration, in Archlinux. Couldn't manage to switch to a TTY or log in on SSH, memory was lost in seconds. It's hit me twice in the past week (in both cases starting with an accidental touch on Print Screen), forking continuously. In both cases I spent some time logged in from an adjacent machine through SSH running 'killall -9 ksnapshot' (which worked, but didn't stop the spawning). In both cases killing the PPID worked, but that killed KDE. I have now removed ksnapshot from my /usr/local/kde4/bin/ directory (KDE 4.2.2 on FreeBSD). *** Bug 199794 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 204728 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 189148 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Maybe this is related to shortcuts? Maybe command is simply repeated? It occured two times on my machine, long time ago, now it works like it should (and in time of these failures it was usually working fine). ksnapshot 0.8.1. unter ubuntu lucid (kde 4.4.2) erlaunt kein direktes Drucken der Seite. Unter kde 3.5 funktionierte das noch. This is probably not a KSnapshot bug, something similar happens on my machine with the multimedia keys: Sometimes Firefox and KMail, which I have mapped to these keys, are started ten or so times from a single keypress. Seems like KHotkeys or whoever manages those keys has to debounce some keys. Qt: 4.7.0 KDE Development Platform: 4.4.92 (KDE 4.4.92 (KDE 4.5 RC2)) KSnapshot: 0.8.1 *** Bug 250843 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 250947 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 252977 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** *** Bug 262809 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** I haven't seen this for a while, might be fixed in 4.6.3. This bug is almost three years old. I'm voting that it should be closed out upon the premise that it's no longer relevant. KDE 3.5 is being inadvertently maintained (fork?) by: http://www.trinitydesktop.org I can no longer assist (basically I never did anyway) with resolving the issues seeing as how I no longer run KDE. Honestly no sarcasm guys. Family, friends and mostly work has taken up all my time. Programming and entertainment is at a standstill. My apologies, Shane Insight would tell me that there was a buffer overflow or type-casting problem. That maybe somewhere to look. Thanks anyway. This bug happened in KDE 4 as well, but not recently. It probably wasn't a KSnapshot bug anyway but in KHotKeys or something. I'll close it as fixed. If anybody encounters this bug again, please open a new one. |