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Pressing "Calculator" button crashed kded

Bug #226496 reported by Zaar Hai on 2008-05-04

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #204534: kded (KDE daemon) crashes when i use calculator hotkey (Hardy). Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Kubuntu 8.04 vanilla install. When I press "Calculator" button on my MS Natural Wireless Ergonomic keyboard, I see message about kded crashing. Running "speedcrunch" from command line works fine. After crashed kded (although its automatically restarted) non of the other additional buttons (volume, play/pause) are working.

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Zaar Hai (haizaar) wrote on 2008-05-04:

Correction: Only volume/mute buttons do not work after kded crash.

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pauls (paulatgm) wrote on 2008-05-08:

Same problem here on a dell E1505 using a hardy fresh install with a usb keyboard, which has a "calc" button on it.

Yes, it kills the volume up/down, mute, Fn-battery popup, Fn eject buttons too, although dimming keys work.

And speedcrunch starts ok from katapult.

Zaar Hai (haizaar) on 2008-05-08

Changed in kubuntu-meta:
status:	New → Confirmed

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delineate (david-lemstra) wrote on 2008-05-12:

kded_backtrace.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain)

I'm having this same problem, except kded crashes randomly when I haven't pressed any of the special 'X' buttons.
This usually occurs 12-24 hours after a reboot.
I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 upgraded from 7.10
After the crash, all my media keys, except for the volume up/down keys, work on both the laptop keyboard and the external wireless keyboard I use most of the time,.

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capri99 (capri99) wrote on 2008-05-13:

I've got similar problem with Logitech Wave Corded keyboard. I've solved it reassigning the "Calculator key" to execute the application (in my case Kcalc) using "System preferences -> Keyboard and Mouse -> Shortcuts" in KDE.

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Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov) wrote on 2008-05-15:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 204534, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Feel free to continue to report any other bugs you may find.

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ugaciaka (ugaciaka) wrote on 2008-06-03:

i have keybord microsoft
Device 002: ID 045e:00dd Microsoft Corp
and kded crashed when I press key for speedcrunch...