Re: icon view crash [3.4.2] (Re: media kioslave crashes, causes konq to crash too)

[Daniel Andor <Daniel.Andor@physics.org>]

On Thursday 08 September 2005 10:20 pm, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 08 September 2005 22:54 schrieb Daniel Andor:
> > On further investigation, it appears to crash whenever konq is using
> > the large icon view, so perhaps nothing to do with the media ioslave
> > (as hinted by the backtrace).  The backtrace is exactly the same.
> I am quite pleased with stability here in general.
>
> But well this is still day one with KDE 3.4.2 so let's see how it goes.
>
> > How do I go debugging from here?  All my packages appear to be upto
> > date, and I didn't have this problem before upgrading to 3.4.2.
>
> Maybe try "strace konqueror" to find out what Konqueror is trying to do
> when it crashes. But as strace gives lots of output it might not be easy
> to find the culprit.

The last bit of strace before it segfaults is

open("/home/da209/.mcoprc", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 21
read(21, "GlobalComm=Arts::TmpGlobalComm\n", 8191) = 31
read(21, "", 8191)                      = 0
close(21)                               = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/mcop", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 21
fstat64(21, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(21, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
getdents64(21, /* 56 entries */, 4096)  = 2512
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/..", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=106496, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/kmedia2.mcoptype", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, 
st_size=2281, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/Arts", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/mcop/Arts", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = 22
fstat64(22, {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
fcntl64(22, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC)        = 0
getdents64(22, /* 85 entries */, 4096)  = 4056
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/Arts/.", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=8192, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/Arts/..", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
stat64("/usr/lib/mcop/Arts/Synth_BUS_DOWNLINK.mcopclass", {st_mode=S_IFREG|
0644, st_size=94, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/lib/mcop/Arts/Synth_BUS_DOWNLINK.mcopclass", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) 
= 23
read(23, "Buildable=true\nInterface=Arts::S"..., 8191) = 94
--- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---


> It might also make sense to try it with a bog standard KDE configuration
> by doing "mv ~/.kde ~/.kde.off". If that "fixes" the crash you could try
> which configuration file triggers it. Most likely its one from Konqueror
> like konquerorrc.

I think you're onto something - with a fresh .kde, it seems fine.  What config 
files relate to the above arts-ey stuff??

Thanks,
Daniel.