Bug 641432 – kde-frameworks/kio-5.41.0 "Malformed URL" error when creating new file on the desktop

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description email200202 2017-12-17 04:49:54 UTC]

The error starts to happen after the latest kde-framework updates on ~amd64 computer.

Steps to reproduce:
1- Right-click to open the context menu on the Desktop.
2- Select "Create New > Text File"
3- Click OK to accept the default name
4- An error message "Malformed URL" is displayed and file is not created.

You get the same results if you use dolphin with "desktop:/" path.

But it works if you use dolphin with "~/Desktop/" path or anyother path.

There were similar bugs reported and patches for older versions of KIO.

https://phabricator.kde.org/D9029
https://phabricator.kde.org/D8836
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1072646-highlight-malformed.html


emerge --info kde-frameworks/kio
https://paste.pound-python.org/show/PV1QofObfSuovaGS1Fz7/

[Comment 1 email200202 2017-12-17 05:20:39 UTC]

I can confirm that the bug was not in kde-frameworks/kio-5.40.0 and its friends.

[Comment 2 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-12-17 19:00:19 UTC]

Did you upgrade to Qt-5.9.3?

[Comment 3 email200202 2017-12-18 00:08:40 UTC]

# emerge -pv dev-qt/qtcore

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R    ] dev-qt/qtcore-5.9.3:5/5.9::gentoo  USE="icu -debug -systemd {-test}" 0 KiB

Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB

[Comment 4 Andreas Sturmlechner 2017-12-18 01:42:53 UTC]

So that's the reason for your trouble, not kio-5.41.0 itself.

Did you already update to KDE Applications 17.12.0 (latest ~arch)?

[Comment 5 email200202 2017-12-18 02:26:05 UTC]

I'm sorry I do not understand what you mean?

The bug happened when the computer was updated to Qt-5.9.3 and KDE Applications 17.12.0.

[Comment 6 Andreas Sturmlechner 2018-01-24 17:44:28 UTC]

I cannot reproduce this issue with 5.42.

[Comment 7 email200202 2018-01-25 06:18:07 UTC]

I confirm it is not 5.42. I think they fixed it.

[Comment 8 Andreas Sturmlechner 2018-03-11 17:05:40 UTC]

5.43.0 is now stable.