Bug 41563 – KDE3.2 kcmnotify module from kcontrol segfaults.

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM

[Description Decibels 2004-02-14 08:22:08 UTC]

In KDE3.2 Contol Center under Sound & Multimedia if you pick System Notifications it will segfault. The other modules work fine. I have a backtrace.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Control Center and pick Sound & Multimedia/ System Notifications.
   Or start it with: kcmshell kcmnotify.
2. 
3.

Actual Results:  
Immediately segfaults.

Expected Results:  
Module to open and configure system notifications.

This worked when first installed KDE3.2 as far as remember. Other seem to
indicate the same.
Also if you start kcontrol in console you will get:

QSettings: failed to open file '/usr/qt/3/etc/settings/qtrc'

min perms to get rid of that error seem to be chmod to 664 were set 600.

Backtrace from results (from system notifications (ie kcmnotify):

***************************************************
(no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library
"/lib/libthread_db.so.1".
(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...
(no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging
using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 16384 (LWP 10356)]

0x411ee9a8 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#0  0x411ee9a8 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0
#1  0x407f3154 in ?? () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#2  0x40730e9d in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) ()
   from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#3  0x00000018 in ?? ()
#4  0x40ea0f68 in typeinfo name for QDir () from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#5  0xbfffd358 in ?? ()
#6  0x40de1306 in QString::setLatin1(char const*, int) ()
   from /usr/qt/3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
*************************************************
Using:
Qt: 3.3.0
KDE: 3.2.0
KDE Control Center: 3.2.0

If you want emerge info let me know. Seeing that have conservative cflags and
that everything else seems to be working (got rid of most problems by unmerging
kde 3.1.5, so not having any of the problems that others are having except for
this).

[Comment 1 Decibels 2004-03-12 07:43:38 UTC]

System Notification works now with KDE 3.2.1 . 

[Comment 2 Dominik Stadler (RETIRED) 2004-03-13 13:03:09 UTC]

Seems to be fixed in 3.2.1, closing bug.