First of all, I was going to report this in "Kate" category, but I saw the last version there is 3.14, which seems to be fairly old compared to KF5, so I'm reporting this here, please move to a more accurate category if any. Dolphin/Plasma/KDE (god knows what!) is telling me that it could not launch Kate (actually, it was launched already) when I close a tab in Kate. Video: http://youtu.be/LZoGQtciAr0 Reproducible: Always
I just noticed that if I open a file with "right click -> open with -> Kate" from Dolphin, Dolphin will freeze until I close the file I have opened. I'm escalating this to grave because this is a major bug. Something is badly broken.
Dolphin is fine when the first file is opened with Kate. The issue happens only when you try to open an additional file. Closing the tab unfreezes dolphin but launches the KDEINIT error popup. I'm using Kate 5.0 with KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 on Slackware
Yes, I confirm the same problem. In addition, I can not select text with the mouse by clicking and dragging up. I only can select text contained in the window, not full text. I'm using Kate 5.0 with KDE Frameworks 5.6.0 on Archlinux
+1 on opensuse 13.2 and plasma 5.2
The same happens with kmail that will freeze if I open an attachment and kate launches a second tab. KWrite uses katepart but is not affected as it does not handle more than one document per session.
Created attachment 91152 [details] The ouput of the plasmashell during the procedure described
I noticed a similar problem with the application menu of the Plasmashell when trying to launch KSysGuard (I think it's called "kickoff", I'm not so familiar with the names). I use the current (a few days old) git code on Archlinux. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the kickoff menu and type in "ksys" 2. Klick on the entry "KSysGuard" 3. KSysGuard will start and display it's main window, but the plasmashell freezes. This freeze does affect the kickoff menu and the whole panel. 4. Close KSysGuard. The kickoff menu will open a dialog and say "KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/ksysguard'". After clicking "OK", everything works and the freeze is gone. The file attached is the ouput of the plasmashell.
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Git commit 5207e49a84145e21060f3b5beff302a437cfeccd by Martin Klapetek, on behalf of Liu Zhe. Committed on 10/03/2015 at 11:58. Pushed by mklapetek into branch 'Applications/15.04'. Register with dbus to wake up KRun, and unregister then This fixes the "KDEInit could not launch Kate" error when opening second file with Kate REVIEW: 122498 Related: bug 339094 M +2 -6 kate/src/kateapp.cpp M +5 -2 kate/src/main.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kate/5207e49a84145e21060f3b5beff302a437cfeccd
In which version is this fix available?
15.04.0
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #11) > 15.04.0 Sorry, Rex, I don't understand: is 15.04.0 a Kubuntu version or what? Because I'm using Kubuntu 15.04 and the bug is there... the current Kate version I have is 5.0.0, so I guess it's not a Kate version. thanks in advance
Kate as part of: https://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-applications-15.04.0.php includes the fix.
Hi, I am running Kubuntu 15.04 and the bug is still there.
(In reply to katalitis from comment #14) > Hi, I am running Kubuntu 15.04 and the bug is still there. As Rex detailed, 15.04 is not the version of Kubuntu, but the version of kde apps that contain the fix. In Kubuntu 15.04, you should use ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports and install Plasma 5.3: the updates from this morning contain the fix for this problem.
Had already added the backports ppa, but only today's updates fixed the problem. Thanks for the answer!
I have the same problem, also with gwenview, it cannot open any file. Before the last update I had deleted the folders .config .local .kde, and I manually restored my customizations. But now, with last upgrade, the problem returned. Do you have suggestions?
Re: comment #17 This bug is about kate (not gwenview), so your issue is something else.
Sorry I don't know but I have also the same kate problem "KDEInit could not launch Kate".
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I have the backports ppa and I still have the problem. Just like Fedele Mantuano in comment 17, I cannot open images with gwenviev. In fact, I cannot open almost nothing in dolphin, just pdf (okular) and libreoffice documents.
I have this problem as well, and am having difficulty following the fix. Regarding Martin Klapetek's comment, I have used git and github, but not for fixing my own computer. Could you give some advice/reference on how such projects work? I also saw that the changes have been ported to Plasma 5.3, but these aren't solved for me? So I think I need more. Thank you kindly.
In my case the problem was caused by a broken kdewallet, see bug #349531
Nuking ~/.kde folder. No solution still.
Possibly related: Bug 353454, in which I get the "KDEInit could not launch..." error message when running a shell script which invokes KWrite (but not when invoking KWrite directly).
Problem is happening here also, Debian 8.3, KDE 4.14.2-2. It happens only when I try open a file with kate when Dolphin is in superuser mode (kdesudo dolphin). It works fine when "normal" user mode.
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