Folder View widget crashes with incorrect subdirectory permissions

[GokulChittaranjan]

Binary package hint: kdebase

The folder-view widget on the desktop crashes when the mouse is hovered over a subfolder (in that widget) without permissions. It displays an alert window saying it could not view it and the whole desktop restarts. If the mouse is hovered over that folder again the second time, the desktop crashes, and does not restart, requiring a manual closure of the xsession using ctrl+alt+backspace

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Aug 18 00:53:59 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
Package: dolphin 4:4.3.0-0ubuntu3
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-5.24-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-5-generic i686

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Could you install kdebase-workspace-dbg and run plasma-desktop through gdb as described at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Backtrace please? Thanks in advance.

[GokulChittaranjan (gokulchittaranjan)]

Hope this helps. gdb stops responding after plasma-desktop freezes if I press ctrl + C
so I had to just run the backtrace command and detach the process after the error

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Just what I needed. :)
With the help of the backtrace I've found the correct bug in the KDE bug tracker, which you can track here: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=201844