Bug#237065: kcontrol crashes when trying to change a file association application

[Dominique Devriese <dominique.devriese@student.kuleuven.ac.be>]

Jon Dowland writes:

> Package: kcontrol Version: 4:3.1.5-2 Severity: normal Tags: sid

> When I attempt to make a change to the preferred application for
> handling a file type, kcontrol crashes. Here is the console output
> from a session where I attempt to set the default application to
> 'ggv' for PDF files:

> ~$ kcontrol kcontrol: WARNING: No K menu group with
> X-KDE-BaseGroup=settings found ! Defaulting to Settings/ ~$ ASSERT:
> "pService" in ../../../kcontrol/filetypes/kservicelistwidget.cpp
> (29) KCrash: Application 'kcontrol' crashing...  Unable to start
> Dr. Konqi ~$

> This occurs only when I use the 'Add..' button to add a new
> application. Shuffling the existing applications (currently,
> kghostview and gv in this case) works ok.

I am not seeing this crash.  Can you try the suggestions from:
http://www.kde-debian.org/~domi/debugging-kde-crash.html

sjuus
domi