Bug#347871: kalarm: crashes when selecting "Run only on demand" in Preferences

[Josh Metzler <joshdeb@metzlers.org>]

On Friday 13 January 2006 02:17, Stefan Borggraefe wrote:
> Package: kalarm
> Version: 4:3.5.0-4
> Severity: important
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Start kalarm
> 2. Select Settings|Configure KAlarm
> 3. In the General section select "Run only on demand
> 4. Press OK
>
> Result: KAlarm crashes (SIGSEGV).

Actually, you can skip step 3 (no settings need be changed):

1. Start kalarm
2. Select Settings -> Configure KAlarm
3. Press Apply or Ok

Backtrace follows:

#4  0xb75f7e3c in QString::setLength (this=0xbfffde18, newLen=137559728)
    at tools/qstring.cpp:1706
#5  0xb75f7ed5 in QString::real_detach (this=0xbfffde18)
    at tools/qstring.cpp:1544
#6  0xb75fc2d6 in QString::replace (this=0xbfffde18, before=@0xbfffdd58, 
    after=@0xbfffddd0, cs=true) at tools/qstring.cpp:4332
#7  0xb75fc7bd in QString::replace (this=0xbfffde18, c=@0xbfffddda, 
    after=@0xbfffddd0, cs=true) at tools/qstring.cpp:4288
#8  0xb796c9bf in translatePath (path=@0xbfffde18) at qstring.h:581
#9  0xb79a049d in KConfigBase::writePathEntry (this=0x9d8e4008, 
    pKey=0x9d8e4008 "", path=@0x9d8e4008, bPersistent=true, bGlobal=false, 
    bNLS=false) at kconfigbase.cpp:1124
#10 0xb79a0591 in KConfigBase::writePathEntry (this=0x9d8e4008, 
    pKey=@0x9d8e4008, path=@0x9d8e4008, bPersistent=true, bGlobal=false, 
    bNLS=false) at kconfigbase.cpp:1055
#11 0x080d76ee in ?? ()
#12 0x081b0268 in ?? ()
#13 0x08164fa8 in Preferences::mMessageColours ()
#14 0x08164bdc in typeinfo for QObject ()
#15 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#16 0x00000000 in ?? ()

I tried debugging in gdb, but I get "Program exited normally" right when the 
kalarm window comes up.

Josh