SUMMARY Kate dont open on xfce STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Install kate using pacman 2. Try to open kate 3. Nothing happens OBSERVED RESULT dmesg shows: [ 7942.266653] kate[5825]: segfault at 0 ip 0000745bc3e281e6 sp 00007ffcb0ad6b30 error 4 in katekonsoleplugin.so[745bc3e26000+9000] likely on CPU 5 (core 5, socket 0) [ 7942.266675] Code: 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 23 fe ff ff 48 8b 7b 38 48 85 c0 74 09 48 85 ff 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 4c 8b 2d 7a bc 00 00 <48> 8b 07 ff 50 60 4c 89 ef 48 89 c6 ff 15 78 b8 00 00 49 89 c5 48 [ 8378.340957] kate[7592]: segfault at 0 ip 000074b9d01f31e6 sp 00007ffc76c556e0 error 4 in katekonsoleplugin.so[74b9d01f1000+9000] likely on CPU 4 (core 4, socket 0) [ 8378.340977] Code: 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 23 fe ff ff 48 8b 7b 38 48 85 c0 74 09 48 85 ff 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 4c 8b 2d 7a bc 00 00 <48> 8b 07 ff 50 60 4c 89 ef 48 89 c6 ff 15 78 b8 00 00 49 89 c5 48 [ 8381.928922] kate[7615]: segfault at 0 ip 00007120178151e6 sp 00007ffdf66306f0 error 4 in katekonsoleplugin.so[712017813000+9000] likely on CPU 2 (core 2, socket 0) [ 8381.928942] Code: 41 5e 41 5f 5d c3 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 e8 23 fe ff ff 48 8b 7b 38 48 85 c0 74 09 48 85 ff 0f 84 b1 00 00 00 4c 8b 2d 7a bc 00 00 <48> 8b 07 ff 50 60 4c 89 ef 48 89 c6 ff 15 78 b8 00 00 49 89 c5 48 SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS OS: Arch Linux x86_64 Kernel: Linux 6.9.10-zen1-1-zen Shell: bash 5.2.26 DE: Xfce4 4.18 WM: Xfwm4 (X11) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION pacman -Qi kate Name : kate Version : 24.05.2-1 Description : Advanced text editor Architecture : x86_64 URL : https://apps.kde.org/kate/ Licenses : GPL-2.0-or-later LGPL-2.0-or-later Groups : kde-applications kde-utilities Provides : kwrite Depends On : gcc-libs glibc kbookmarks kcolorscheme kcompletion kconfig kconfigwidgets kcoreaddons kcrash kdbusaddons kguiaddons ki18n kiconthemes kio knewstuff kparts kservice ktexteditor ktextwidgets kuserfeedback kwidgetsaddons kwindowsystem kxmlgui qt6-base syntax-highlighting Optional Deps : konsole: open a terminal in Kate clang: C and C++ LSP support [installed] python-lsp-server: Python LSP support texlab: LaTeX LSP support rust: Rust LSP support git: git-blame plugin [installed] Required By : None Optional For : None Conflicts With : kwrite Replaces : kwrite Installed Size : 32.50 MiB Packager : Antonio Rojas <arojas@archlinux.org> Build Date : Tue 02 Jul 2024 02:56:23 PM -03 Install Date : Sat 27 Jul 2024 09:45:37 PM -03 Install Reason : Explicitly installed Install Script : No Validated By : Signature
Problem solved after installing konsole.
Git commit f2a3d9428b659af04632ddc4ff9f9c28bc5e5448 by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 29/07/2024 at 16:44. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'master'. fix crash if no konsole installed M +2 -2 addons/konsole/kateconsole.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/f2a3d9428b659af04632ddc4ff9f9c28bc5e5448
Git commit ec3b7b5a2fa4dac86ad32223231c385b6bf9da4f by Christoph Cullmann. Committed on 29/07/2024 at 16:50. Pushed by cullmann into branch 'release/24.08'. fix crash if no konsole installed (cherry picked from commit f2a3d9428b659af04632ddc4ff9f9c28bc5e5448) Co-authored-by: Christoph Cullmann <christoph@cullmann.io> M +2 -2 addons/konsole/kateconsole.cpp https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/ec3b7b5a2fa4dac86ad32223231c385b6bf9da4f
Thanks for reporting this, my error.