Bug 174727

Summary:	Dolphin freezes if trying to read a dubious file
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Anne Wilson <cannewilson>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdelibs bugs <kdelibs-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	normal	CC:	cannewilson, peter.penz19
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Mandriva RPMs
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Anne Wilson 2008-11-09 17:26:07 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Mandriva RPMs

I have been working with some photo CDs.where a disk may contain one or more damaged files.  If any operation causes it to try to read a damaged file Dolphin freezes.  It does not appear to have a time-out for elegant recovery.

I have tested this in Mandriva 2009 and Fedora 9.

Comment 1 Peter Penz 2008-12-05 15:32:51 UTC

Thanks for the report. Would it be possible that you attach a small damaged file to this bug report? Does Dolphin "recover" from the freeze after some seconds or does it really crash? Also do you have the information panel open?

Comment 2 Anne Wilson 2008-12-08 15:38:08 UTC

I have some problems here - the jpg files are not small, so I've uploaded a couple of damaged ones to http://tinyurl.com/645drx together with a crash report.

The problem occurs when reading these files from CD, and it took many tries to get them copied to HDD.  However, when I managed it, they are quite readable (though obviously damaged) from the HDD.

Dolphin freezes, and so far as I can tell does not recover at all - After a good 2 minutes it was totally frozen.

On re-opening dolphin on the CD content some time later I get instant previews of the file up to and including the damaged ones - just the point at which it froze before.  No further previews are shown.

Today I had the Information panel open.  I don't think I had discovered the Information panel when I first reported this, but I am not certain of that.

Comment 3 Peter Penz 2009-02-20 17:34:23 UTC

I can confirm the freeze on trunk and 4.2 when using the damaged JPEGs from http://tinyurl.com/645drx, it seems to be related with the preview generator for JPEGs...

Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 17:06:49 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have resolved this bug.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann