Bug 265558 - frequent plasma-desktop crashes (and freezes)
Summary: frequent plasma-desktop crashes (and freezes)
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: desktop (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2011-02-06 00:19 UTC by Kevin Coonan
Modified: 2011-12-03 18:25 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Kevin Coonan 2011-02-06 00:19:49 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.5) 
OS:                Linux

After fresh install I am experiencing frequent problems which may be related to the same bug (or not). 

First, often when logging in, a crash in kdeinit is reported, but the desktop shows up pretty much intact.

When using KDE, the desktop often crashes.  When I restarted plasma-desktop, it ran fairly well until I went to search for new plasma widgets (KDE site) upon which the desktop crashed immediately.  The output on the console I had used to start the desktop reported:

Couldn't find node center. Skipping rendering.
Object::connect: No such signal KPushButton::triggered(QAction*)
Object::connect:  (sender name:   'installButton')
plasma-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libattica.so.0: undefined symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii

I restarted, and was able to start to load the Google widgets, and few thumbnails showed up before crashing with the following message:

thumbnail.js:104: Thumbnail not modified: http://desktop.google.com/plugins/images/clock_cal_sm.gif
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/bin/plasma-desktop from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/kevin/.kde4/socket-linux-t9wr/kdeinit4__0
KCrash: Application 'plasma-desktop' crashing...
KCrash: Attempting to start /usr/lib64/kde4/libexec/drkonqi from kdeinit
sock_file=/home/kevin/.kde4/socket-linux-t9wr/kdeinit4__0



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
right click on taskbar -> add widgets -> Get new widgets
Comment 1 Dario Andres 2011-02-06 18:16:00 UTC
[Comment from a bug triager]
For each crash we need a separate report with a full backtrace (you may need to install some "-debuginfo" packages)

About this error:
"plasma-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libattica.so.0: undefined
symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii"
It is caused by some mistmatch between libattica (related to GetHotNewStuff via kde-look) and KDE itself. You probably need to update your KDE related packages as it is a compiling/packaging issue.

Regards
Comment 2 Kevin Coonan 2011-02-07 21:53:11 UTC
Dario,
Thanks for the suggestions.  I wasn't getting any sort of help from 
kbugbuster.  I do have the debug libraries installed, but the crash didn't 
seem to set off any sort of alarm bells.  Is there a way to run w/ debugging 
turned on another way or generate a debug trace?  (need some handholding, the 
only coding I am doing these days is OCL and R)

I will try putting in libattica from the KDE 4.6 repo, and see what happens. 

I just got Akonadi and Kontact working again (after upgrading to 4.5) so I am 
a little loathe to upgrade to KDE 4.6 quite yet. 

Kevin


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On Sunday, February 06, 2011 12:16:04 Dario Andres wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=265558
> 
> 
> Dario Andres <andresbajotierra@gmail.com> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
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> - CC|                            |andresbajotierra@gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Dario Andres <andresbajotierra gmail com>  2011-02-06
> 18:16:00 --- [Comment from a bug triager]
> For each crash we need a separate report with a full backtrace (you may
> need to install some "-debuginfo" packages)
> 
> About this error:
> "plasma-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libattica.so.0: undefined
> symbol: _ZN9QListData11detach_growEPii"
> It is caused by some mistmatch between libattica (related to GetHotNewStuff
> via kde-look) and KDE itself. You probably need to update your KDE related
> packages as it is a compiling/packaging issue.
> 
> Regards
Comment 3 Dario Andres 2011-02-08 00:58:05 UTC
[Comment from a bug triager]
Try installing these packages:
kdelibs4-debuginfo, libqt4-debuginfo, kdebase4-debuginfo, kdebase4-runtime-debuginfo, kdebase4-workspace-debuginfo

DrKonqi (the KDE crash handler) should rate th backtraces you get. if you don't get a good score (and therefore, you can report them); try pasting them here so I can give you more advices.

Regards
Comment 4 Juan Carlos Torres 2011-12-03 18:25:10 UTC
I am not able to reproduce any crash in KDE 4.7.4 on Fedora 16. Please update your KDE to the latest version and check if it still happens for you. If it does, please feel free to reopen this report with additional information and steps to reproduce the bug.

Thanks!