Summary: | Plasma crashed when the computer is shutting down | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | kroz <kroz.nn> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM | ||
Severity: | crash | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 4.10.3 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Compiled Sources | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
kroz
2013-05-28 16:39:13 UTC
> #6 0xacf16fa7 in PlasmaYasdp::~PlasmaYasdp (this=0x9122b18, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /home/kroz/tmp/plasmoid/yaSDP/plasma-yasdp.cpp:41
> #7 0xacf171e2 in PlasmaYasdp::~PlasmaYasdp (this=0x9122b18, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /home/kroz/tmp/plasmoid/yaSDP/plasma-yasdp.cpp:43
As you can see in the backtrace, the crash is due to that 3rd party plasmoid. Nothing can be done here. Please report the problem to its author.
Please, clarify/comment the following: 1. Can 3rd party software (plasmoid) affect normal operation of KDE components? If yes - that is a security problem. Analogy: JS script or Flash plugin, if crashed, shall not (and does not) kill browser. I guess, that the answer for previous problem is "No", since fault of that plasmoid was correctly intercepted by KDE, and KDE shown me a dialog with the notification. So: 2. If fault of other program (plasmoid) was correctly intercepted, why dialog informs me that "_Plasma_ was crashed"? Let it show name of that program. or at least "Other software" or "Software PID=". A user shall not be forced to analyze backtrace to find out exactly program that actually crashed. I think this item shall be of interest for KDE developers: nowadays "Plasma crashes" is considered being something common. If actual reason of "Plasma crashes" is not KDE components but 3rd party plasmoids or other software, it should be of interest for KDE developers to inform users/public about it; and the best way to do this is through messages in Crash dialog. 3. If fault of other program (plasmoid) can be correctly intercepted, there should be a way to avoid KDE interrupting shutdown process because of this. The "Crash dialog" is interesting and useful to generate backtrace, post a bug (BTW, very good feature, thats for that), investigate the problem; but when the problem is known, accepted to be, it is very annoying to wait each time near the computer "whether KDE will interrupt shutdown process this time" and then press Ok. "Ok, I know about this problem, stop reminding about it again and again!". I am taking about some checkbox in System Settings (or at least option if config files) to allow/forbid KDE to interrupt shutdown process in case of errors. Thanks. |