kio_man hangs when man:/xorg.conf entered into Konqueror

[Simon Ruggier]

When I tell Konqueror to display man:/xorg.conf, it doesn't finish, and a process named kio_man uses up as much cpu time as it can get. Konqueror still responds, and if I tell it to stop, kio_man will disappear after a few seconds.

[kko (kko)]

Hello!

Is this on Dapper? (Definitely can not confirm on Breezy.) Further, is it a clean install or an upgrade? Further information would be useful.

Thank you.

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

It's on Dapper, an upgrade from Breezy to Dapper before it was released.

[Ryan Kavanagh (ryanakca)]

Your bug lacks information we would need to investigate further. We
are now going to close the bug - please reopen if you have more
information at hand.

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

I'm on a clean install instead of an upgrade by now, and the problem still
exists, I just checked. I don't see what other info I can give, I type
man:/xorg.conf into konqueror's location bar and it chokes on it. It can
display other man pages just fine. If you need more info than that you're
going to have to give me some instructions, I can't read minds, and I don't
know everything about every package on my desktop, but will gladly gather
information if you tell me what I'm looking for.

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

How strange. it's working as intended here, as it shows the manpage.

Does this still happen if you start with a new user?

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

Yep, I just created a new user, opened konqueror, and typed in
man:/xorg.conf. Waited 2 seconds, then added a system monitor applet to my
panel, noted the 100% usage, then closed konqueror, it was still going.
FYI, I'm using kde 3.5.3, from kubuntu.org's repos. I'm going to try
3.5.4and see if the issue remains.

Simon

On 8/23/06, Sarah Hobbs <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> How strange. it's working as intended here, as it shows the manpage.
>
> Does this still happen if you start with a new user?
>
> ** Changed in: kdebase (Ubuntu)
> Status: Rejected => Needs Info
>
> --
> kio_man hangs when man:/xorg.conf entered into Konqueror
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/49021
>

[Simon Ruggier (simon80)]

Just tried the 3.5.4 packages with this user and a fresh one (I deleted the other fresh one, deleted their home dir, and remade that user, then tested it. Over 20 seconds waiting, no man page. man:/tex works, and man:xorg.conf works in yelp.

[Andres Mujica (andres.mujica)]

i can confirm this bug

2 9244 6888 R 95.7 1.8 0:42.39 kio_man
 5007 root 15 0 113m 43m 4692 S 2.6 8.7 17:08.37 Xorg

dpkg -l | grep konqueror
ii konqueror 3.5.4-0ubuntu1~dapper2 KDE's advanced file manager, web browser and
ii konqueror-nsplugins 3.5.4-0ubuntu1~dapper2 Netscape plugin support for Konqueror
ii kubuntu-konqueror-shortcuts 0.3-0ubuntu1 Konqueror shortcuts for the Ubuntu wiki and

this is on dapper

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Does this happen to anyone on Edgy?

[klerfayt (klerfayt-deactivatedaccount)]

man:/xorg.conf does work in edgy without any anomalies