Bug 502446 - DrKonqui enters UI loop due to gdb/debuginfo failure.
Summary: DrKonqui enters UI loop due to gdb/debuginfo failure.
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: drkonqi
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: 5.27.11
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR major
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2025-04-05 11:48 UTC by tim-kde
Modified: 2025-04-07 19:05 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Version Fixed In: 6.3.0
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Description tim-kde 2025-04-05 11:48:14 UTC
SUMMARY

Trying to install Prusa Slicer's flatpak by clicking the flatpak file - discover hangs and then crashes, but DrKonqui enters a UI loop repeatedly failing to retrieve crash information.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Try to install Prusa Slicer from https://www.prusa3d.com/page/prusaslicer_424/
2. Click on the downloaded file to install it. For me, Discover hangs trying to download the images and eventually crashes, bringing up DrKonqui.
3. Reach 'Fetching the Backtrace (Automatic Crash Inform...' screen.
4. Try to retrieve the stacktrace.
OBSERVED RESULT

It repeatedly shows 'The crash information could not be generated' with 'You could try to regenerate the backtrace by clicking refresh'. 

Clicking refresh flashes very briefly:

This GDB supports auto-downloading debuginfo from the following URL
  https://debuginfod.ubuntu.com
Enable debuginfod for this session? (y or [N]) [answered N; input not from terminal]
Debuginfod has been disabled
To make this setting permanent, add 'set debuginfod enabled off' to .gdbinit

and then blanks to show 'The crash information could not be generated' again and leaving the 'Next' button disabled.

EXPECTED RESULT

1. Such a message should not flash up and vanish like that: I was able to capture it with a video on my phone but that shouldn't be necessary: there should be a log window showing the commands it's running and their output - even if that output is perhaps folded.

2. I tried adding 'set debuginfod enabled on' to .gdbinit, but that had no effect.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 24.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.12
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.115.0
Qt Version: 5.15.13
Kernel Version: 6.8.0-54-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: offscreen
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3610QM CPU @ 2.30GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4000

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

I managed to install Prusa from the command-line. I'm guessing the original bug was in Discover, but it seems I can't report that unless this is fixed! Aaand having just updated and/or installed, I can't reproduce the issue in Discover.
Comment 1 tim-kde 2025-04-05 11:50:34 UTC
For clarity, it wan't just flickering by itself - just each time I pressed refresh.
Comment 2 tim-kde 2025-04-05 11:54:06 UTC
... and also, my assumption is that the failure with the debuginfo thing was instrumental in it failing to get the stacktrace - having a reason for why 'The crash information could not be obtained' would be much better than just stating that outcome.
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2025-04-07 19:04:23 UTC
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 489315 ***
Comment 4 Nate Graham 2025-04-07 19:04:50 UTC
Oops, not that, sorry.
Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-04-07 19:05:20 UTC
It's a different thing which was fixed in Plasma 6, in which DrKonqi has received a UI refresh!