I have not managed to find a pattern yet, but occasionally, when I try to start konsole, nothing appears to happen; launch feedback occurs, but no window opens, and no error messages are displayed. This occurs if I tried to start Konsole via a launcher or the Run Command dialog (Alt+F2). However, if I start Konsole from a shell in xterm, it works fine. When this occurs, "$ ps -e | grep -i konsole" shows several instances of Konsole, most of which (IE: at least half) are defunct. After "$ killall konsole", I can start Konsole from the launchers again. "# journalctl -f /usr/bin/konsole" only shows the following: May 01 07:00:17 ares konsole[22752]: QCoreApplication::arguments: Please instantiate the QApplication object first May 01 07:00:17 ares konsole[22753]: QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. May 01 07:00:17 ares konsole[22752]: QDBusConnection: session D-Bus connection created before QCoreApplication. Application may misbehave. This seems unrelated as it occurs every time I start konsole, successfully or not. This message also shows in the shell if I start konsole via xterm. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Konsole via a launcher (Kickoff, desktop icon, panel launcher, etc) or Run Command dialog. Conditions causing/triggering bug are unknown as of this report. Actual Results: Launch feedback occurs, no window is opened, no error messages displayed. Effectively, nothing seems to happen. Expected Results: Konsole should start normally. Version 3.0.1 Using KDE Frameworks 5.9.0 BASH v4.3.033 Plasma Desktop version is 5.2.2 In the off chance it matters, $ uname -a : Linux ares 3.18.11-1-MANJARO #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Apr 4 21:48:56 UTC 2015 x86_64 GNU/Linux Listing bug as "Minor" due to ease of "killall" work-around and obviousness of incorrect behavior.
Software versions: Linux Distr.: Arch Linux Konsole version 15.12.0 KDE Frameworks 5.17.0 Qt 5.5.1 $ pacman -Qi konsole | grep Version Version : 15.12.0-1 $ pacman -Qi plasma-desktop | grep Version Version : 5.5.2-1 Steps to reproduce: 1. Start new konsole from K-menu or Run Command dialog. 2. Close all tabs 3. Try to start konsole again Actual Results: Launch feedback occurs, no window is opened, no error messages displayed. Effectively, nothing seems to happen. Expected Results: Konsole should start normally. Expected Results: Konsole should start normally. $ ps aux | grep konsole lampus 3647 1.7 1.3 468744 52548 ? Sl 17:43 0:00 /usr/bin/konsole lampus 3657 0.4 0.9 320428 39588 ? S 17:43 0:00 /usr/bin/konsole lampus 3658 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z 17:43 0:00 [konsole] <defunct> lampus 3665 0.0 0.0 11972 2300 pts/1 R+ 17:43 0:00 grep konsole Sometimes crash occured: Application: Konsole (konsole), signal: Aborted Using host libthread_db library "/usr/lib/libthread_db.so.1". [KCrash Handler] #5 0x00007f7f925865f8 in raise () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #6 0x00007f7f92587a7a in abort () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #7 0x00007f7f925c505a in __libc_message () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #8 0x00007f7f925ca9a6 in malloc_printerr () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #9 0x00007f7f925cb18e in _int_free () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #10 0x00007f7f8f106c4c in QMetaCallEvent::~QMetaCallEvent() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #11 0x00007f7f8f106c99 in QMetaCallEvent::~QMetaCallEvent() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #12 0x00007f7f8f0dd707 in QCoreApplication::removePostedEvents(QObject*, int) () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #13 0x00007f7f8f108a22 in QObjectPrivate::~QObjectPrivate() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #14 0x00007f7f8f108b49 in QObjectPrivate::~QObjectPrivate() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #15 0x00007f7f8f111618 in QObject::~QObject() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #16 0x00007f7f7f513409 in QXcbConnection::~QXcbConnection() () from /usr/lib/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 #17 0x00007f7f7f514ea6 in QXcbIntegration::~QXcbIntegration() () from /usr/lib/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 #18 0x00007f7f7f514fb9 in QXcbIntegration::~QXcbIntegration() () from /usr/lib/libQt5XcbQpa.so.5 #19 0x00007f7f8f411d43 in QGuiApplicationPrivate::~QGuiApplicationPrivate() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Gui.so.5 #20 0x00007f7f8f9c8a09 in QApplicationPrivate::~QApplicationPrivate() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5 #21 0x00007f7f8f111618 in QObject::~QObject() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Core.so.5 #22 0x00007f7f8f9ca7f9 in QApplication::~QApplication() () from /usr/lib/libQt5Widgets.so.5 #23 0x00007f7f929212e8 in kdemain () from /usr/lib/libkdeinit5_konsole.so #24 0x00007f7f92573610 in __libc_start_main () from /usr/lib/libc.so.6 #25 0x0000000000400779 in _start ()
I have this bug on Kubuntu 15.10 with KDE 5.5.3, QT 5.5.1, KDE Frameworks 5.18.0 But, I can start konsole by using Xterm or Uterm with many konsole process zombie.
I also see this, with kubuntu 15.10 running as a vbox guest. konsole 15.0.8.0 kde frameworks 5.15.0 qt: 5.4.2 It happens if I try to launch from within the VBox instance, or even if I ssh -Y in from the host (Gentoo). Doing a ps from that ssh session often seems to show some drkonqui instances, but I can't figure out how to get the full information from any of them. In the KUbuntu - if I do Alt-Tab, I can see the konsole instances with a square frown face icon, but nothing actually shows up as a visible window.
Note: I am no maintainer but from the bugsquad. Is someone experiencing this issue with the current konsole versions? The fact that I cannot reproduce it (I know it there are no known ways to reproduce the problem) and the long time since reporting makes me think it could be fixed. System Information: konsole 17.12.3 kde-plasma-version: 5.12.6 kde-frameworks-version: 5.44.0 qt-version: 5.9.5
I had totally forgotten about this, although I hardly ever use the Kubuntu VM, I don't recall noticing this problem in recent months. I suspect it would be safe to close as UNMAINTAINED (my current konsole is 18.04.3) or possibly WORKSFORME. It can easily enough be reopened if someone is still getting this behavior.
Thanks for the feedback, I will do just that. If anyone has additional infos please feel free to comment and reopen the issue!