After doing a search on "." on an external 8Tb hard drive (only used 2Tb) with only films on, I have been going back-and-forth switching search results from name to type and back, since late last night (about a 13 - 15 hour gap). I only came back to the search results just after midday, and after just selecting sort by type and highlighting "AVI" and then selecting t sort by name, Dolphin just faded out and crashed, without telling me it had crashed. I had to manually report this crash, so the report might not contain anything useful, sorry. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. On a large external HD (with alphabetised folders) search for everything, "." 2. switch the results from name to type a couple of times, add with that a few moves to another drive and deletes 3. Leave for about 15 hours 4. switch the results from name to type 5. Highlight one type of video 6. switch from type to name Actual Results: After performing step 6, Dolphin just faded out, not even telling me it had crashed. Expected Results: It should have just switched to display the search results alphabetically with the highlighted results scattered throughout the search results. While the search was ongoing and dormant, I had Curlew converting AVI to MKV throughout the night, saving the converted file in the same folder as the file to convert.
I have tried to recover what I think was the crash report but I don't know if I was successful. sudo apport-retrace --stdout /var/crash/_usr_bin_dolphin.1000.crash E: Can not find version '4:4.14.3a-0ubuntu1~ubuntu14.04~ppa1' of package 'kde-baseapps' E: Unable to find a source package for kde-baseapps --- stack trace --- #0 0x00007fe14ebdbc13 in g_logv () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #1 0x00007fe14ebdbd72 in g_log () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #2 0x00007fe14ec15bcb in ?? () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #3 0x00007fe14ebd2a97 in g_main_context_new () from /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0 No symbol table info available. #4 0x00007fe1539eceb1 in QEventDispatcherGlibPrivate::QEventDispatcherGlibPrivate (this=0x7fe120001400, context=<optimised out>) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:320 No locals. #5 0x00007fe1539ecfc1 in QEventDispatcherGlib::QEventDispatcherGlib (this=0x7fe120003540, parent=0x0) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_glib.cpp:368 No locals. #6 0x00007fe1538bc20e in QThreadPrivate::createEventDispatcher (data=data@entry=0x7fe120003250) at thread/qthread_unix.cpp:283 No locals. #7 0x00007fe1538bd2d4 in QThreadPrivate::start (arg=0x7fe1200030b0) at thread/qthread_unix.cpp:333 __clframe = {__cancel_routine = 0x7fe1538bc300 <QThreadPrivate::finish(void*)>, __cancel_arg = 0x7fe1200030b0, __do_it = 1, __cancel_type = <optimised out>} thr = 0x7fe1200030b0 data = 0x7fe120003250 objectName = {static null = {<No data fields>}, static shared_null = {ref = {_q_value = 336012}, alloc = 0, size = 0, data = 0x7fe153d2593a <QString::shared_null+26>, clean = 0, simpletext = 0, righttoleft = 0, asciiCache = 0, capacity = 0, reserved = 0, array = {0}}, static shared_empty = {ref = {_q_value = 22340}, alloc = 0, size = 0, data = 0x7fe153d2591a <QString::shared_empty+26>, clean = 0, simpletext = 0, righttoleft = 0, asciiCache = 0, capacity = 0, reserved = 0, array = {0}}, d = 0x7fe157c43878, static codecForCStrings = 0x0} #8 0x00007fe14f0b4182 in start_thread (arg=0x7fe129e57700) at pthread_create.c:312 __res = <optimised out> pd = 0x7fe129e57700 now = <optimised out> unwind_buf = {cancel_jmp_buf = {{jmp_buf = {140605047273216, -3754507867620170320, 0, 0, 140605047273920, 140605047273216, 3758004533059855792, 3758202117883241904}, mask_was_saved = 0}}, priv = {pad = {0x0, 0x0, 0x0, 0x0}, data = {prev = 0x0, cleanup = 0x0, canceltype = 0}}} not_first_call = <optimised out> pagesize_m1 = <optimised out> sp = <optimised out> freesize = <optimised out> __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ = "start_thread" #9 0x00007fe15798347d in clone () at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/clone.S:111 No locals. I <may> have managed to send the crash results of the '.crash' file by selecting open with 'report a crash'.
Thanks for the bug report. There is indeed not much useful information in the backtrace. To be honest, I'm not sure if reporting bugs for extremely outdated software makes much sense at all, or if it is a waste of your time. Lots of things have been changed since Dolphin 4.14. Most notably, it has been ported to Qt5 and KF5. Many old bugs might not exist at all any more. Moreover, I don't think it's likely that your distribution will provide updated packages for Dolphin and kdelibs 4.14 (unless they fix security issues or something similarly urgent).
KDE 4 software is no longer maintained. Try KDE5 stuff, it's awesome. Dolphin is amazing now.