Konsole 1.6.3 in KDE 3.5.3 crashes after zooming text to huge size

[Edmund Laugasson]

Binary package hint: konsole

I reconfigured Konsole 1.6.3 in KDE 3.5.3 and put ALT++ to get text size bigger and ALT+- to get text size smaller.

When I try to zoom text as long as possible by pressing ALT and +, then Konsole just crashes. The crash will appear, when Konsole text cursor does not fit onto terminal window. Then KDE crash handler appears and it says:
Application Konsole crashed due to signal 6 (SIGABRT).

And it also says, that this SIGABRT appears, when application has bug inside it. Also it suggest me to report a bug and this is I'm doing now.
And it also says, that no back trace is not possible .

But when I try to zoom text smaller by pressing ALT and -, then it goes to some fixed small size and then stops - this is expected behaviour and so it should be. This should be also, when zooming text bigger - it should detect window size and stop zooming when it reaches its limits.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thanks for your bug report. Could you please try to obtain a
backtrace by following the instructions on
       http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash.
This will greatly aid us in tracking down your problem.

[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.

[Edmund Laugasson (ed-lau)]

I don't understand, what information is needed. Try to install Kubuntu 6.06 and latest KDE - you will see yourself. I use Estonian locale.

And I would like to say, that I don't have time to play several days with hunting bugs. It seems like "enterprise ready" Ubuntu 6.06 is a myth... Actually too much critical errors has been appeared in Ubuntu 6.06 in short time... I just don't understand, what's wrong....

But the fact is, that Midnigh Commander is corrupted in latest KDE...

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

As i asked before can you give us a backtrace? If not please provide us with a strace. We need some info on what caused the crash (not a general cause) But we need this info to investigate further. Thank you for filing this bug.

i changed this back to needs info hoping to retrieve the needed info.

[Rocco Stanzione (trappist)]

I was able to reproduce this bug and get a backtrace in kde-3.5.4 in dapper. Once the font becomes so big that the cursor no longer fits in the konsole window (!!!), enlarge it a few more times and konsole crashes. Not sure this warrants recanting enterprise-ready claims. Anyway here's the backtrace. Maybe it's more useful than it looks to me.

Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 46912569803904 (LWP 16311)]
0x00002aaaab245752 in nanosleep () from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 0x00002aaaab245752 in nanosleep () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x00002aaaab2455f0 in sleep () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x00002aaaaba1197d in KCrash::startDrKonqi (argv=0x7fffffb27a10, argc=18)
    at kcrash.cpp:311
#3 0x00002aaaaba387d5 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler (
    sig=<value optimized out>) at kcrash.cpp:228
#4 0x00002aaaab1e41b0 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Is this an issue in a fully updated system?

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Confirmed on Feisty.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

A fix has been committed upstream, so this should be fixed in the next version of KDE.

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

This problem is still present in KDE 3.5.6

[Sarah Kowalik (hobbsee-deactivatedaccount)]

Seems fixed in 3.5.7. Please reopen this bug if you find it still occurs.