Bug 396139

Summary:	Welcome screen hangs KEXI
Product:	[Applications] KEXI	Reporter:	Jarosław Staniek <staniek>
Component:	General	Assignee:	Kexi Bugs <kexi-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	adam, inksi
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	3.1.0
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Jarosław Staniek 2018-07-03 21:35:52 UTC

Welcome screen hangs KEXI. To test just start KEXI without any filenames or click the KEXI button.

This is a problem if system has installed specific designer plugins, probably those that use WebKit. Reported this case here:

https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-57400?focusedCommentId=410890&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-410890

Official KEXI for Windows is not affected as it is pre-packaged with private copy of Qt which does not include these plugins.

Comment 1 Jarosław Staniek 2018-07-03 22:19:12 UTC

There can be various reasons for the plugin hangs. In my case it was using ASAN (address sanitizer) for a test version of KEXI. In this case building KEXI without ASAN helps.

Second  workaround: run KEXI with project filename (or .kexis connection file) as an argument so the Welcome screen is not displayed.

Third workaround: remove PREFIX/share/kexi/3.2/status/status.ui file before running KEXI.. If KEXI was compiled by you, also remove the src/main/status/status.ui file from the source code before running KEXI. In this workaround KEXI won't find the file so it will not hang before trying to load it.