Bug 113749

Summary:	kde-base/khotkeys-3.4.3 current user startup crash
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Chris White (RETIRED) <chriswhite>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	strace.log

Description Chris White (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-27 14:58:43 UTC

khotkeys will crash for existing users, but not for new ones.  It simply erorrs 
out like such:

chris@main ~ $ khotkeys
ERROR: Communication problem with khotkeys, it probably crashed.
chris@main ~ $

That's.. it.  It relates to the following upstream bug:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108712

attaching an strace log just in case, as gdb output seems useless.

Comment 1 Chris White (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-27 14:59:08 UTC

Created attachment 73697 [details]
strace.log

Comment 2 Marcus D. Hanwell (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-28 05:39:29 UTC

I managed to reproduce this with a fresh user too on amd64. Can't get any 
useful debug info from it.

Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-11-29 07:10:31 UTC

Probably this happens because khotkeys is already running as a kded module and  
the standalone instance refuses to start giving a spurious error.  
  
Try for instance:  
$ dcop kded khotkeys quit  
$ khotkeys  
$ killall khotkeys 
$ dcop kded kded loadModule khotkeys  
$ khotkeys  
ERROR: Communication problem with khotkeys, it probably crashed.  
  
This is a minor annoyance, we can safely leave it to upstream...