Bug 166895

Summary:	Opening text file(s) with Kate from Dolphin or Konqueror causes KLauncher error.
Product:	[Applications] dolphin	Reporter:	Darcy R. Peal <ripose>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Peter Penz <peter.penz19>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	16.12.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Darcy R. Peal 2008-07-18 06:11:05 UTC

Version:           Dolphin 1.0.2 KDE 4.0.3 (using KDE 4.0.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

This is a new (2 days ago) install of KDE 4.0.3 from Kubuntu 8.04.1

How to reproduce: Open Dolphin, open a text file. Kate opens properly with the right document displayed. A few seconds later a "Sorry Dolphin" dialog box appears with the message "KLauncher could not be reached via D-Bus, error when calling start_service_by_desktop_path: empty"

Notes: Nothing crashes, I can still read the text file. However on previous attempts at installing/using Linux the K environment caused total system crash. It did this with Debian, Knoppix, and Ubuntu; at least until I reformatted the entire HDD to ext3. Which wiped out all traces of HP crap.

System: HP Pavillion a1410n - AMD64 3800+(Athalon) - 2 GB RAM, Nvidia 6150LE

Personal Note: Don't ever buy a proprietary system.

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-07-18 08:03:26 UTC

I cannot reproduce this issue in KDE 4.1, but I know we had some similar reports during KDE 4.0.x. Does this issue also happen with a completely new user? If I remember correctly the root cause was related to a KDE3 vs. KDE4 configuration issue...

Comment 2 Pino Toscano 2008-07-18 10:10:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 157853 ***