* Using Ubuntu 10.10
* kdebase-workspace (plasma-desktop) 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu8
* konqueror: 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu4
* other packages?
When reporting a bug, a konqueror window is said to be opened for entering further details (? my standard browser is firefox-4.0). Instead of opening one window containing the launchpad web site, a few dozens if not hundreds of windows are opened, plasma-desktop goes crazy (content of taskbar, I/O and CPU), the little konqueror icon below the mouse pointer switches to ADHD-maniac-mode, the whole system just gets unusuable for quite a moment. After a while, all these konqueror windows collapse bit by bit; when reaching zero, the "transferring..." window from the crash reporter opens again, and the whole thing is going to loop if not aborted/paused in that little window that just gives you a few seconds to react.
It can also be stopped by killing plasma-desktop and waiting a few moments until no new konqueror windows are created (the little mouse icon...), and starting it again. When done in a console window, the following output can be observed when reproducing the bug:
<start>
QPainter::setRenderHint: Painter must be active to set rendering hints
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::save: Painter not active
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::restore: Unbalanced save/restore
QPainter::rotate: Painter not active
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
<end> (don't know where that starts, the console is just flooded with these lines)
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: plasma-desktop 4:4.5.1-0ubuntu8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jan 24 00:27:02 2011
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/plasma-desktop
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
XsessionErrors: (process:11249): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
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