kat crashes kded, restarts, crashes kded, restarts ....

[benjaminq]

Binary package hint: kat

Installed kat 0.6.3 from universe, installed all necessary recommended (optional) packages except lyxhtml and pointed it to /home/documents for creating the fist catalog.

This gave an infinite crash/relaunch of a kded instance with Sig 11 message (no bugtrace obtainable). The sig 11 messages accumulate on the desktop. A killall kat won't stop it, disabling kded from within kcontrol drives the respective kcontol module unresponsive. The cycle-crash madness stops when kat gets purged via synaptic.

Tried it twice.

This is an ugly bug for KDE users that don't want to use Beagle/Kerry (and kat usually finds much more because it indexes _directly_ e.g. OOorg documents and *.doc in fulltext when the optional packages are installed.

Benjamin

[Rami Autiomäki (rami-autiomaki)]

I compiled kat 0.6.4 from sources, but it acted as mentioned above.

[Zoltan Peczoli (peczoli)]

Same here. Running katdaemon from command line reveals the problem:

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CppSQLite3Exception'
KCrash: Application 'katdaemon' crashing...

[Martijn van Vliet (mvanvliet)]

Same crashing kded bug here, i installed kat on dapper with kde 3.5.4.
Seeing that the problem pops up directly after a boot without needing to load kat, the problem is probably somewhere in or around the daemon of kat.

I don't know much about the packages, only that the problem is gone after removing kat with apt-get.

[ville palo (vi64pa)]

I can reproduce this with dapper, but not anymore with edgy. Could this be fixed nowadays

[ville palo (vi64pa)]

Changed status to fix released.
This can be reopened if somebody is able to reproduce this on edgy.