[Jaunty] Ksnapshot Endless Loop

[Lambros Bezedes]

Distribution Kubuntu Jaunty (9.04 development branch)
Package Ksnapshot ver 4:4.2.0-0ubuntu2 0

After hiting Print Screen several times Ksnapshot keeps taking screenshots forever. Killall doesn't solve the problem neither killing ksnapd (?). The only way i stoped it was by opening a new session via Ctrl+Alt+F1 and removing the package with sudo apt-get remove ksnapshot (it also removes kubuntu-desktop). Then i used killall ksnapshot and reinstalled kubuntu-desktop and ksnapshot.

[Jumbalaya (stefano-jumba)]

I can confirm this bug, same issue.

[kesh (gbkeshava)]

Same issue, however, instead of having to remove ksnapshot restarting the computer stops it.

[cor (cor-corz)]

Same issue, Jaunty 64 bit. A restart works fine, but you will probably want to add KSnapshot to your session manager exceptions. On my system, four screenshots seems to be the magic number that starts the infinite loop. I haven't re-tested this, though, because it's crazy annoying.

[Bartłomiej Żogała (nusch)]

I confirm it, very annoying, for me it happens quite often(I have delete key near print screen). It's decreases whole system stability because there is no way to save all work opened in KDE after it happens. After swiching to console, killall -9 ksnapshot && killall kdeinit4 and switching back , more new instances of ksnapshots shows up, and X goes unresponsive.

[Kristóf Kiszel (ulysses)]

My PrtScr key is up to the Backspace key, so I press it also, when pressing the Backspace. Then sometimes the KSnapshot goes to an endless loop, I can only close it with force shutdown (pressing the power button).

[Kristóf Kiszel (ulysses)]

Release: Kubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope (all updates installed)
Kernel: Linux loris 2.6.28-15-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 19:25:34 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux
KDE: 4.2.2
KSnapshot: 4.2.2 (apt-cache show ksnapshot ->see the attachment)

[Kristóf Kiszel (ulysses)]

Today I got these error again, but in another form. I don't know what key I pressed, but I got more and more window with an error message, that said, "Can't start /usr/bin/ksnapshot" or something like. Then I shutdowned the laptop with the power key, and after reboot, tried to start KSnapshot with KRunner. Alt+F2, then I typed /usr/bin/ksnapshot, and it started.

[Kjella (kjella79)]

This still happens on lucid, just experienced same bug. It was also karmic, experienced it there too. "skill ksnapshot" did stop it for me though.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner. There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 335991 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

[Lambros Bezedes (kleidokrators)]

No problem, i have also forgotten about it. Just tested it using Kubuntu 11.10 and it's ok, there is no bug any more.

[Maarten Bezemer (veger)]

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