Created attachment 171408 [details] Demo of KDiff3 bug on fresh openSUSE install SUMMARY Trying to compare files using the context menu does not work. However, it does put their names into the nameboxes after the unknown error popup, after which the comparison behaves as normal. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Click on two files in Dolphin 2. Click Kdiff3 > Compare to compare the files OBSERVED RESULT An unknown error message pops up EXPECTED RESULT The files are compared as normal SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.1 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0 Qt Version: ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
We had this reported downstream in Gentoo too at https://bugs.gentoo.org/935224 where in https://bugs.gentoo.org/935224#c15, it was bisected to: commit f6aca74944482c1bf5f2df653945a2fb5d2bf660 (HEAD) Author: Michael Reeves <reeves.87@gmail.com> Date: Sun Sep 24 13:06:29 2023 -0400 Delay updateAvailabilities until focus change is competed BUG:462693 FIXED-IN:1.10.6
(In reply to Sam James from comment #1) > We had this reported downstream in Gentoo too at > https://bugs.gentoo.org/935224 where in https://bugs.gentoo.org/935224#c15, > it was bisected to: > > commit f6aca74944482c1bf5f2df653945a2fb5d2bf660 (HEAD) > Author: Michael Reeves <reeves.87@gmail.com> > Date: Sun Sep 24 13:06:29 2023 -0400 > > Delay updateAvailabilities until focus change is competed > > BUG:462693 > FIXED-IN:1.10.6 I was quick off the mark with my original bisect - exposing this issue is something of a race-condition... but that also means a bisect/test (one) cycle is going to lead to the wrong commit... I repeated the bisect and landed here: ((fb3b7e66...)|BISECTING) $ git bisect bad fb3b7e66d097f41e1e43f9ffe3e94eb48623a48e is the first bad commit commit fb3b7e66d097f41e1e43f9ffe3e94eb48623a48e (HEAD) Author: Michael Reeves <reeves.87@gmail.com> Date: Wed May 17 23:18:50 2023 -0400 Move InitView call to KDiff3App::completeInit src/kdiff3.cpp | 2 ++ src/pdiff.cpp | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) I then built the immediately preceding commit and ran 10 successful goes to prove I'm not going totally mad. KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.3.0 QT Version: 6.7.2 Graphics Platform: X11
Thanks consolidating what appears to be two bugs with the same root cause found here. Though it was the information that finally helped find the cause.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 486782 ***