Bug 469884

Summary:	snap fails to start
Product:	[KDE Neon] neon	Reporter:	Ryan <jryan.daniels>
Component:	Snaps	Assignee:	Scarlett Moore <sgmoore>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	me, mhamant, neon-bugs, nicolas.fella
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Snap
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Ryan 2023-05-17 09:50:13 UTC

SUMMARY
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Start kate via terminal, nothing happens. Yesterday before the snap was automatically refreshed, kate worked. Today, it doesn't.

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STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Start kate via terminal

OBSERVED RESULT
Nothing happens. There is nothing printed to the terminal either.

EXPECTED RESULT
Kate starts.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Ubuntu Sway 22.10 x86_64 , 5.19.0-42-generic kernel
(available in About System)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
I was on 23.04.0 yesterday and it worked.

Comment 1 Ryan 2023-05-17 09:54:46 UTC

When I run '''snap revert kate''', kate works again.

Comment 2 Scarlett Moore 2023-05-18 12:46:33 UTC

I cannot reproduce, I am trying to recruit testers to reproduce. Thanks for reporting.

Comment 3 IDX 2023-05-22 08:15:23 UTC

I can confirm this bug. Kate 23.04.0 starts without troubles, while 23.04.1 crashes without output in terminal. I'm using Kubuntu 22.04.2 LTS, 5.19.0-41-generic.

I use Kate Sessions, so whenever I start Kate, I see "Manage Sessions" window. I hope this will help reproducing the bug.

I tried to strace kate (sudo strace -o kate-buggy.log -ff -u user -E HOME=/home/user kate). Kate created ~250 child processes and strace did not stop, I had to do kill -9.

Comment 4 Martinus 2023-05-25 14:32:34 UTC

*** Bug 470259 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5 Martinus 2023-05-25 14:33:54 UTC

I can confirm this bug as well. Ubuntu 22.04 here (Gnome/Wayland)

Comment 6 Martinus 2023-06-05 08:11:59 UTC

Notice that 'snap revert' works only if you haven't removed Kate before... So for me it's blocking, many users can't start Kate as snap.

Comment 7 Scarlett Moore 2023-06-05 13:02:35 UTC

I am still trying to work out the issue. Curious: are all of you on wayland?

Comment 8 IDX 2023-06-05 13:05:01 UTC

(In reply to Scarlett Moore from comment #7)
> I am still trying to work out the issue. Curious: are all of you on wayland?

I am using only X session.

Comment 9 Martinus 2023-06-12 10:52:01 UTC

(In reply to Scarlett Moore from comment #7)
> I am still trying to work out the issue. Curious: are all of you on wayland?

I'm running Wayland. If you need something to be tested, just ask.

Comment 10 Scarlett Moore 2023-11-03 17:12:52 UTC

This should fix it.
https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1333

Comment 11 Scarlett Moore 2023-11-08 16:55:32 UTC

Please update to the latest version ( 23.08.3 ) in the store. Thanks.