Kompare crashes on startup in Jaunty

[John McCabe-Dansted]

Binary package hint: kdesdk

Kompare always crashes on startup in Jaunty i386 no matter what. The KDE backtrace is as follows:

Application: Kompare (kompare), signal SIGSEGV

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb5b1b700 (LWP 5533)):
[KCrash Handler]
#5 0xb6915a77 in KServiceType::serviceOffersOffset () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5
#6 0x08054133 in _start ()

(yes, its really short).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: kompare 4:4.2.1-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
SourcePackage: kdesdk
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-8-generic i686

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Hello John,

Unfortunately I am not able to reproduce this behaviour. Please install the package kdesdk-dbg and obtain a new backtrace of this crash, I suspect the one you posted initially is so short because some debugging related files are missing (I might be wrong though :)).
If kdesdk-dbg doesn't help to get a longer backtrace, an strace might be of use. Please run
strace kompare > ~/kompare.strace 2&>1
this will create a file called kompare.strace in your home directory, please attach this file to this bug report.
Thank you very much in advance and have a nice day.

[Ben Heley (oxygen84)]

I'm getting the same thing on 8.10, I've screwed around with my software sources though, so my system may be inconsistent somewhere.

Application: Kompare (kompare), signal SIGSEGV

Thread 1 (Thread 0xb5ba46c0 (LWP 9261)):
[KCrash Handler]
#5 0xb6940797 in KServiceType::serviceOffersOffset () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5
#6 0x08054133 in KompareShell (this=0x815e858) at /build/buildd/kdesdk-4.2.2/kompare/kompare_shell.cpp:68
#7 0x0805060e in main (argc=1, argv=0xbfa820a4) at /build/buildd/kdesdk-4.2.2/kompare/main.cpp:95

[sreque (seanthenewt)]

I see this exact bug in Intrepid 9.04. It happens every time on startup.

Application: Kompare (kompare), signal SIGSEGV
0x00007f0d27d358f5 in waitpid () from /lib/libc.so.6

Thread 1 (Thread 0x7f0d2c66b750 (LWP 30196)):
[KCrash Handler]
#4 0x00007f0d28fa4c20 in KServiceType::serviceOffersOffset () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5
#5 0x00007f0d28f8e6fe in KMimeTypeTrader::query () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5
#6 0x000000000040de8a in KompareShell (this=0x1b8dd60) at /build/buildd/kdesdk-4.2.2/kompare/kompare_shell.cpp:68
#7 0x000000000040a66e in main (argc=1, argv=0x7fff3469fbc8) at /build/buildd/kdesdk-4.2.2/kompare/main.cpp:95

[sreque (seanthenewt)]

Oops, I Meant Jaunty 9.04!

[sreque (seanthenewt)]

Another interesting thing to note. I just tried running kompare inside of the kde desktop instead of gnome, and it didn't crash.

[Bruce MacDonald (b-macdonald-auckland)]

Kompare crashed in Ubuntu 8.10 complaining about files not existing in .kde, but only if I gave it arguments (if no arguments, it runs and functions fine except for the window taking the whole screen). After running konqueror this problem goes away, even after a reboot kompare is fine. I can't reproduce it. I don't use konqueror much so maybe there was some legacy set up in .kde, that kompare does not fix.

[Srinidhi (srinidhimmeera)]

Hello,

I am using Linux Mint 7 on a AMD64 machine. I am facing the same problem and i have the trace also. Can i post it here?

[fsando (fsando)]

I'm seeing the same on Ubuntu 8.10

[John McCabe-Dansted (gmatht)]

I cannot reproduce on 10.04 LTS