Bug 181522

Summary: Starting a second konsole displays error popup or crashes plasma
Product: [Plasma] plasma4 Reporter: Christopher Neufeld <kdebugs>
Component: widget-kickoffAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: crash CC: andresbajotierra
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Christopher Neufeld 2009-01-21 20:38:24 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          gcc-4.2.4 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

Sometime after revision 902646, a problem appeared in the launching of konsoles.  I have a convenience konsole icon in a folder view on the desktop.  Launching the first konsole is fine.  If a second is launched without closing the first, the konsole appears, but a popup also appears with the message:  "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/local/kde4/bin/konsole'."

If I try to launch a konsole from the K Menu System->Terminal, it crashes plasma, but the new konsole window still appears.

It is possibly informative that launching a second konsole window does not create a new process or a new thread.  Launching the first konsole window creates the konsole process, but new windows launched separately feed off that original process without spawning any new process table entries.

My uninformed speculation is this:  something in changeset 911168 doesn't like it when a new application is launched that doesn't create a new process.
Comment 1 Christopher Neufeld 2009-01-21 20:52:00 UTC 
One revision that exhibits the problem is 914691.
Comment 2 Dario Andres 2009-01-21 23:52:07 UTC 
The plasma crash when launching an app from KMenu is another already reported issue :) Thanks

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 181477 ***