[Hardy] Kmilo crashes with media center key

[Leonardo Gastón De Luca]

When pressing the media center key of a Dell Inspiron E1705/9400, instead of launching amarok kmilo crashes.
EDIT: and all services are stopped.

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[KCrash handler]
#6 0xb755f5ea in KConfigBase::readEntry () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#7 0xb75c3722 in KConfigBase::readEntry () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#8 0xb631f4d6 in KMilo::GenericMonitor::launch ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/kmilo_generic.so
#9 0xb631f857 in KMilo::GenericMonitor::launchMusic ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/kmilo_generic.so
#10 0xb6322e79 in KMilo::GenericMonitor::qt_invoke ()
   from /usr/lib/kde3/kmilo_generic.so
#11 0xb7540243 in KGlobalAccelPrivate::activate ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#12 0xb75cc9be in KGlobalAccelPrivate::x11KeyPress ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#13 0xb75ccbdc in KGlobalAccelPrivate::x11Event ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#14 0xb75dbb7a in KApplication::x11EventFilter ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#15 0xb6d88480 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0xbfe77854 in ?? ()
#17 0xbfe77618 in ?? ()
#18 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#19 0x003495b0 in ?? ()
#20 0x00000087 in ?? ()
#21 0xb73495b0 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#22 0xbfe774b8 in ?? ()
#23 0xb6d98a9b in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
Backtrace stopped: frame did not save the PC

[Manuel Kaufmann (humitos)]

I have the same problem and I have a Desktop PC. Any other key I push besides the "Amarok key" works very well. Thanks!

[Manuel Kaufmann (humitos)]

I found an alternative solution: "Edit your Amarok item on KMenu". Go to KMenu and press rigth-click on "Amarok", then select "Editar elemento" and bind the "Media hotkey" whit that element.

[Leonardo Gastón De Luca (leorockway)]

The solution works for me, too. Thank you.

[Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen)]

kmilo cause a crash.
It happens when i press one of the multimedia keys: Calculator, Search, Mail, Home.
Volume keys do not cause the crash.
The crash show a message:
KDE Daemon (kded) crashed with signal 11.
I cannot obtain a good backtrace because i don't know what debuggin symbols to use.
This is in a Desktop PC.
Using Kubuntu 8.04, with kdeutils (4:3.5.9-0ubuntu3) hardy. Using KDE 3.5.

If I disable kmilo daemon, i can use all these multimedia keys by configuring their actions in Khotkeys without any problem.
Thanks.

[Daniel T Chen (crimsun)]

Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04?

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

KMilo has been unmaintained/unincluded in KDE since KDE 4.1.

[reini (rrumberger)]

Well, it is maintained & included in 3.5, and that's where the problem lies for anyone using Hardy. I know/read somewhere that Kubuntu isn't LTS, but this is still a rather severe problem, as KDED is an integral part of KDE 3.5, and crashing whenever one accidentally hits a button isn't really an option.
Also, some of us can't upgrade to KDE 4.1 since that isn't really stable or feature complete, so it's rather useless in a production environment => we need severe KDE 3.5 bugs like this one to be dealt with.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

It is unmaintained in all versions.