Bug 502555

Summary: Falkon immediately segfaults, or, a few seconds of a blank "falkon:restore" then crashes
Product: [Applications] Falkon Reporter: jeffreybouquet
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: REPORTED ---    
Severity: crash    
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 24.12.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: FreeBSD Ports   
OS: FreeBSD   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:

Description jeffreybouquet 2025-04-08 10:09:21 UTC
SUMMARY
  falkon after our February update, does not load, or, a blank "falkon:restore" appears then a crash
TO REPRODUCE
1.    run under gdb
2.    run with any of its parameters except -h or -v maybe
3. 

OBSERVED RESULT
  does not appear with its tabs as before


EXPECTED RESULT
  open with twenty or so tabs ther


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
KDE Plasma Version: plasma6- ... 6.3.4 
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.12.0 ???
Qt Version: both? 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
gdb : gpu_info_collector.cc(582) Could not create surface for info collection
       ... thread 27: received signal SIGSERV, Segmentation fault.
       Address not mapped to object
    [ switching to LWP 104576 of process 18789]
   in ?? () from /usr/local/lib/qt6/libQt6WebEngineCore.so.6

I've rebuilt and reinstalled that file, did not fix anything. 

KDE per se is not installed fully enough to be used as a desktop, if that matters. Falkon worked 
for a long long while ...
Comment 1 jeffreybouquet 2025-04-18 10:15:18 UTC
workaround posted on the arch linux forums and the freebsd forum and on kde discuss, after v25 version bump which may be
not relevant.