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.
One revision that exhibits the problem is 914691.
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 ***