Bug 343285 – kde-base/keditbookmarks: multiple bookmarks moved to a subfolder often deletes bookmarks & subfolder

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Ben Kohler 2010-10-29 19:59:27 UTC]

I'm noticing a lot of quirks in the bookmark management, but the most critical
and reproducible is seen when trying to move bookmarks from the top level
bookmarks dir to a subdir.  The source bookmarks & destination folder both
disappear.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Create a dozen or more bookmarks in the top-level "Bookmarks" folder.  You
can make one then copy/paste-paste-paste to make a bunch real quick.
2.  Create a new folder "foo" within "Bookmarks".
3.  Select 4 of these bookmarks, click-drag them to "foo"
4.  If it works fine, select another 4 and move them.

Actual Results:  
"foo" AND the 4 selected bookmarks disappear, usually on the first, second, or
third move.  It rarely takes longer than that to see the problem.

Expected Results:  
The 4 bookmarks should be moved to the "foo" subdir.

When running krdc from a terminal, I see this output when the folder &
bookmarks disappear:

keditbookmarks(22494) KBookmarkManager::findByAddress:
KBookmarkManager::findByAddress: couldn't find item  "/5" 
keditbookmarks(22494) KBookmarkManager::findByAddress:
KBookmarkManager::findByAddress: couldn't find item  "/6" 
keditbookmarks(22494) KBookmarkManager::findByAddress:
KBookmarkManager::findByAddress: couldn't find item  "/0/2"

I don't know if this output is related or not, but I see it (with different
numbers on the end) every time the problem happens.

I've also reported this upstream (this bug is mostly a copy/paste of my report there): https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255611

[Comment 1 Ben Kohler 2010-11-08 19:46:24 UTC]

Apparently this is an issue with keditbookmarks itself, not just krdc.  I can reproduce it by running keditbookmarks directly.  With a fresh user profile, too.

[Comment 2 Ben Kohler 2010-12-03 19:22:24 UTC]

Problem still exists on kde-base/keditbookmarks-4.5.4

[Comment 3 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-04-03 16:01:04 UTC]

Any better luck with kde-4.6.1 or 4.6.2 (coming this week, stable candidate)?

[Comment 4 Ben Kohler 2011-04-13 16:00:22 UTC]

I finally got a chance to test on kde-base/keditbookmarks-4.6.2, exact same behavior.  This is on a brand new kde install, with a fresh user.  I can't believe more people haven't run into this, keditbookmarks is unusable for creating folders & organizing your bookmarks in those folders.

[Comment 5 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-04-17 22:08:31 UTC]

After looking at the zoo of open keditbookmarks bugs on b.kde.org, I can only conclude that this piece of code is not really maintained at the moment. No idea what to do here. :(

[Comment 6 Tomáš Chvátal (RETIRED) 2011-04-21 14:36:04 UTC]

Not a blocker for stable. It is long time bug in upstream code that looks like noone wants to fix :(

[Comment 7 Andreas K. Hüttel 2011-10-17 19:58:12 UTC]

Anyone still seeing this with 4.7.2?

[Comment 8 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2011-12-12 20:13:10 UTC]

In 4.7.3 keditbookmarks crashes on reproduced steps...

[Comment 9 Ben Kohler 2011-12-31 04:23:15 UTC]

Been away from KDE for a while but finally got some new hardware so I figured I'd check in on this.  Still happening for me on kde-base/keditbookmarks-4.7.4.  It did take me a little longer to reproduce that before (subjectively), but moving 5 bookmarks at a time, it probably took 10-12 moves before they disappeared.

Still a glaring bug, I feel sorry for anyone who's got important bookmarks in a kde app!

[Comment 10 Ben Kohler 2012-02-28 20:16:41 UTC]

Tried this on current kde-base/keditbookmarks-4.8.0 today, behavior is even stranger than before, lots of random quirks until it finally crashes with a segfault.  See upstream report for updated symptoms & screenshot.

[Comment 11 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) 2013-02-14 20:09:11 UTC]

Is this still a problem with 4.10?

[Comment 12 Ben Kohler 2013-02-14 20:31:42 UTC]

Yes it is.  I tested it a couple of days ago after 4.10's release and updated the upstream bug when I saw the same behavior, but I did not update this report.

[Comment 13 Michael Palimaka (kensington) 2013-08-20 13:45:47 UTC]

I can still reproduce issues with 4.11

[Comment 14 Johannes Huber (RETIRED) 2013-10-21 10:57:17 UTC]

Its reported upstream, tracking since 3 years. Was never a stabilization blocker so makes no sense to keep this open forever.