Kate crash desktop if open .nfo files on Karmic

[starslights]

Binary package hint: kdesdk

Hello,

I run on Kubuntu Karmic 64 bits , x86 64 and if i open a .nfo text file, the desktop come black and cannot be restored.

Kate open the file correctly but dunno why crash the whole desktop.

my best

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Oct 25 11:37:44 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: kate 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-14.48-generic
SourcePackage: kdesdk
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-14-generic x86_64

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Can you run KRunner by pressing alt + F2, or is the desktop totally gone?

[starslights (starslights)]

yes , i can open it and i have close all my running applications by this way before do CTRL+ALT+DEL to have the restarting menu.

I.e if was a application running before i have the black desktop, i can go in process manager and use it to open the windows and i see it, only the desktop are gone.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Ok, so it looks like plasma-desktop is crashing. Could you please install kdebase-workspace-dbg and try to get a backtrace of the crash using the instructions at https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Backtrace please? Thanks in advance.

[starslights (starslights)]

i have a backtrace and add it but i have need use the pidof of "plasma-desktop" while kdebase-workspace don't be installed it seem or can't be used for this case.

Anyway it have worked and hope will help you

my best

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Kate is not what is crashing. You need to install kdebase-workspace-dbg for plasma-desktop's debugging symbols, then run plasma-desktop through gdb. (After quitting the existing plasma-desktop session by kquitapp plasma-desktop)

[starslights (starslights)]

i have installed kdebase-workspace-dbg and only the .txt are named kate, i have run plasma-desktop through gdb ..

If you open the file, you wil see and the error too.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Oh, ok. The file title was a bit confusing. The log doesn't actually contain a backtrace though, so it is a bit useless.
Does any NFO do this? I could try to reproduce it with a few of mine.

[starslights (starslights)]

sorry, I poorly explained to me:)

I do not know why it gives me no "backtrace" as you say, but i have do all you say and in wiki.

I tested 8 NFO and they all did the same mistake. Sometimes there was no crash, but if you open them a few times, I'm sure you could reproduce it.

Best regards

[Zane (zanetu)]

Hi, I have a similar problem. After playing around for a while, I found out that if there is a certain pattern in the file path that kate accesses, plasma-desktop will crash for sure. The pattern I found is "more than three Chinese characters within a pair of square brackets", for example, "/home/zanetu/[一二三四].txt", "/home/zanetu/[一二三四五]/a.txt", etc.
I followed the instructions in https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Backtrace and got the txt file in the attachment. Hope it will help.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

You need to run gdb with
gdb --args plasma-desktop --nofork --nocrashhandler
to produce sane results.

[Zane (zanetu)]

Hi Harald,

At present I'm using Kubuntu 10.10 with the version of Kate being v3.5.5. The bug is no longer reproducible with Kate v3.5.5.

Thanks,
Zane

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Thanks, considering it fixed then :)