Application: kate (3.10.5) KDE Platform Version: 4.10.5 (Compiled from sources) Qt Version: 4.8.4 Operating System: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64 Distribution: Ubuntu 13.04 -- Information about the crash: - What I was doing when the application crashed:Trying to open Kate as root crash evrytime and ask me to reopen but does not work -- Backtrace: Application: Kate (kate), signal: Aborted Using host libthread_db library "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". [KCrash Handler] #6 0x00007fcaf5713037 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:56 #7 0x00007fcaf5716698 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:90 #8 0x00007fcaf35c85c2 in qt_message_output (msgType=<optimized out>, buf=0x26db048 "kate(27337)/kdeui (kdelibs): Session bus not found \nTo circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash) \nexport $(dbus-launch) ") at global/qglobal.cpp:2347 #9 0x00007fcaf3df5a76 in QDebug::~QDebug (this=0x7ffff190ee60, __in_chrg=<optimized out>) at /usr/include/qt4/QtCore/qdebug.h:85 #10 0x00007fcaf3ed19e7 in KApplicationPrivate::init (this=0x2625460, GUIenabled=GUIenabled@entry=true) at ../../kdeui/kernel/kapplication.cpp:516 #11 0x00007fcaf3ed29d8 in KApplication::KApplication (this=0x7ffff190f4f0, GUIenabled=true) at ../../kdeui/kernel/kapplication.cpp:352 #12 0x00007fcaf431c524 in KateApp::KateApp (this=0x7ffff190f4f0, args=0x25a88a0) at ../../../kate/app/kateapp.cpp:52 #13 0x00007fcaf5aa97b8 in kdemain (argc=2, argv=<optimized out>) at ../../../kate/app/katemain.cpp:378 #14 0x00007fcaf56fdea5 in __libc_start_main (main=0x4006d0 <main(int, char**)>, argc=2, ubp_av=0x7ffff190f678, init=<optimized out>, fini=<optimized out>, rtld_fini=<optimized out>, stack_end=0x7ffff190f668) at libc-start.c:260 #15 0x0000000000400701 in _start () Possible duplicates by query: bug 322845, bug 318467, bug 316765, bug 314342. Reported using DrKonqi
Did you run "su" then 'kate' ? Then don't. KDE Applications requires dbus session available, while su doesn't care about dbus session ( nothing wrong with it) . Run "kdesu kate" as normal user. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 270422 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 270442 ***