Bug 309215 – kde-base/plasma-workspace-4.3.5 crash on hovering cursor over games-util/etswitch-0.1.14 taskbar entry

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Joshua Barney 2010-03-13 03:06:31 UTC]

Using the game minimizer ETSwitch (games-util/etswitch-0.1.14) in KDE causes the entire plasma desktop to crash simply by hovering the mouse over ETSwitch's entry in the taskbar. I'm guessing that Plasma is trying to make a thumbnail of ETSwitch, but ETSwitch being an app without a window, it fails.

One does not need to load up a game for ETSwitch to manage for this to happen.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start KDE4
2. Start ETSwitch
3. Hover mouse cursor over ETSwitch's taskbar entry

Actual Results:  
The Plasma Desktop crashes, losing the application launcher, taskbar, system tray, wallpaper, etc.

Expected Results:  
No crash.

[Comment 1 Joshua Barney 2010-03-13 03:08:26 UTC]

Created attachment 223365 [details]
Crash info from KDE's Crash Reporting Assistant

[Comment 2 Joshua Barney 2010-03-13 03:10:20 UTC]

Portage 2.1.7.17 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/server, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.32-zen5-pappy x86_64)
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System uname: Linux-2.6.32-zen5-pappy-x86_64-AMD_Athlon-tm-_64_X2_Dual_Core_Processor_3800+-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:01 +0000                                                             
distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [disabled]                                                                      
ccache version 2.4 [disabled]                                                                                  
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p35                                                                                   
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.10                                                                                   
dev-lang/python:     2.6.4-r1                                                                                  
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7                                                                                    
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.4-r3                                                                                  
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13                                                                                   
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2                                                                                    
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.63-r1                                                                             
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.3                                                                
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                                                   
sys-devel/gcc:       4.3.4                                                                                     
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1                                                                                    
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b                                                                                    
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1                                                                                 
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"                                                                                        
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"                                                                                             
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"                                                                                   
CFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-march=k8-sse3 -O2 -pipe -ggdb"
DISTDIR="/var/db/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests buildpkg distlocks fixpackages metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://mirror.its.uidaho.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en en_US"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/var/db/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/techwolf /var/lib/layman/roslin /var/lib/layman/sunrise /var/lib/layman/multimedia /usr/local/portage /var/lib/layman"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="3dnow 3dnowext acl acpi addressbook alsa amd64 bzip2 cairo caps cli cracklib crypt cxx dri fam fontconfig fortran gdbm gmp gnutls gpm iconv idn inotify kde lcms mmx mmxext modules mudflap multilib nls nptl nptlonly offensive openmp pam pch pcre pppd qt3support qt4 readline reflection session spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification sysfs tcpd threads truetype unicode v4l v4l2 xattr xml xorg zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" CAMERAS="ptp2" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev wacom" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_US" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" SANE_BACKENDS="plustek" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia none"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-04-17 23:58:23 UTC]

Have you seen this also in kde-4.4.2?

[Comment 4 Vicente Olivert Riera (RETIRED) 2010-06-11 14:28:05 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Have you seen this also in kde-4.4.2?
> 

I'm on kde-4.4.4 , and I have followed the "steps to reproduce", and I don't have that problem.

I don't know if this is a kde problem, or etswitch problem, but, if I try to launch etswitch from "MenuK -> games", etswitch is opened and inmediately closed.
If I launch etswith on a konsole (or yakuake), it works. And I can hover the mouse cursor over etswitch taskbar entry, and nothing crashes.

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2010-06-13 15:04:15 UTC]

OK, lets resolve this for the moment. Please reopen if the problem reappears.