Using opensuse 13.2 Qt: 4.8.7 KDE: 4.14.9 Using Dolphin 15.04.0 press right mouse button -> New -> textfile Opening this file with Kate 3.14.9 Kate crashes Kwrite also Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see Details 2. 3.
additional some more infos: Kate crashes when ever a white space is the first character in a file Crash info: Application: Kate (kate), signal: Segmentation fault Using host libthread_db library "/lib64/libthread_db.so.1". [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f605a150780 (LWP 4857))] Thread 2 (Thread 0x7f603d5f6700 (LWP 4858)): #0 0x00007f6058a1c05f in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x00007f604b27149b in () at /usr/lib64/libQtScript.so.4 #2 0x00007f604b2714d9 in () at /usr/lib64/libQtScript.so.4 #3 0x00007f6058a180a4 in start_thread () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #4 0x00007f605778008d in clone () at /lib64/libc.so.6 Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f605a150780 (LWP 4857)): [KCrash Handler] #5 0x00007f6059309df1 in KSycocaEntry::name() const () at /usr/lib64/libkdecore.so.5 #6 0x00007f603eddc79f in Kate::TextBuffer::load(QString const&, bool&, bool&, bool) () at /usr/lib64/libkatepartinterfaces.so.4 #7 0x00007f603ee4dfce in KateBuffer::openFile(QString const&, bool) () at /usr/lib64/libkatepartinterfaces.so.4 #8 0x00007f603ee43502 in KateDocument::openFile() () at /usr/lib64/libkatepartinterfaces.so.4 #9 0x00007f604e28d0b7 in () at /usr/lib64/libkparts.so.4 #10 0x00007f604e28e69e in KParts::ReadOnlyPart::openUrl(KUrl const&) () at /usr/lib64/libkparts.so.4 #11 0x00007f603ee3157e in KateDocument::openUrl(KUrl const&) () at /usr/lib64/libkatepartinterfaces.so.4 #12 0x00007f6044c15dff in () at /usr/lib64/libkateinterfaces.so.4 #13 0x00007f6044c1616c in () at /usr/lib64/libkateinterfaces.so.4 #14 0x00007f6044c245a1 in () at /usr/lib64/libkateinterfaces.so.4 #15 0x00007f6044c0e9a9 in KateApp::startupKate() () at /usr/lib64/libkateinterfaces.so.4 #16 0x00007f6044c0f625 in KateApp::initKate() () at /usr/lib64/libkateinterfaces.so.4 #17 0x00007f6044c0f7f0 in KateApp::KateApp(KCmdLineArgs*) () at /usr/lib64/libkateinterfaces.so.4 #18 0x00007f6044e69abc in kdemain () at /usr/lib64/libkdeinit4_kate.so #19 0x0000000000408815 in _start ()
This is fixed with recent kf5 versions.