When I press Alt+. to show the hidden files in my home directory, dolphin shows them and then freezes. The window become unresponsive (menu, toolbar, places, main window all dead). If I minimise and restore the window, it comes back with a grey transparent background but otherwise completely empty. The real bad thing now is that I cannot use dolphin anymore. If I kill it and start it again, it shows the hidden files in my home directory and is frozen immediately. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start dolphin 2. Press <Alt+.> Actual Results: Hidden files are displayed. Dolphin freezes. Expected Results: Hidden files are displayed. Dolphin remains usable.
Sorry, should have said that this is a fresh install of Kubuntu 15.10. Plasma 5.4.2 Qt 5.4.2 dolphin version - can't check because I can't get it to work. It's the one that comes with Kubuntu 15.10.
Thanks for the bug report! Hidden symlinks in your home folder?
I just saw that kile has created two links: .lyxpipe.in .lyxpipe.out They're pointing to files in my kde subdirectory in /tmp
Renaming the two files by removing the leading dot has made dolphin responsive again. However, to not disturb kile, I have afterwards renamed them back to their initial names. I still consider this a grave bug, because this workaround to unfreeze dolphin is not straightforward. Dolphin becomes unusable to a user who doesn't get pointed to this behaviour. Even if I now know how to get dolphin back, it is a major issue that I can't switch it to show hidden files, which I consider an important feature.
Thanks for the additional information! This bug had been reported already. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 352828 ***