[Bug 249218] New: "kdeinit running" rapidly forks kfmclients that quickly die
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 Summary: "kdeinit running" rapidly forks kfmclients that quickly die Product: openSUSE 10.2 Version: Final Platform: i686 OS/Version: SuSE Other Status: NEW Severity: Major Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: webclark@rochester.rr.com QAContact: qa@suse.de "kfmclient openURL http://any.site.com" results in many processes showing as "kfmclient [kdeinit] openURL http://any.site.com" being created and dieing very fast, with 10-15 always present (on an 800MHz P3). They are all children of a single process which shows up under PS as "kdeinit running ...". I encountered this first with the openSuse menu item that does a "desktop-launch http://localhost:631" to manage printing (brings up the cups web interface). This USED to work fine, and still does on other accounts (5 or 6) on the machine. But now it fails (as described) reliably. I tracked it to the kfmclient line given above, which I can type into a shell to reproduce the problem. Configuration is to install most everything involving KDE. This was a clean openSuse 10.2 install 6 or 8 weeks ago. This problem showed up a couple of weeks later. I was pursuing this under KDE bug 137534 because it sounded almost exactly alike, but on careful reading of the description there it involves kio_http (which I have not seen) and kfmclient and kio_http forking new copies of THEMSELVES. All of the kfmclient instances on my machine are children of "kdeinit running ..." The user logging off kills off all of the insanity and things are normal again until THAT user does a "kfmclient openURL ..." again. I would be happy to run experiments such as copying a file from a "good" user's kde directory to the "bad" user's, changing parameters, etc. I assume I can always put the original file back. Tell me what to send, what to compare, etc. to narrow it down and I will do it. If there is any risk, just let me know up-front. I need the system to work (to correspond with you!) but I assume that worst case I could put original files back from a shell login. Thanks. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 chrubis@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|bnc-team- |kde-maintainers@suse.de |screening@forge.provo.novell| |.com | -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 llunak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |NEEDINFO Info Provider| |webclark@rochester.rr.com ------- Comment #1 from llunak@novell.com 2007-02-28 03:10 MST ------- kcontrol -> KDE components -> Components chooser -> Web browser - what are the settings there? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 webclark@rochester.rr.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEEDINFO |NEW Info Provider|webclark@rochester.rr.com | ------- Comment #2 from webclark@rochester.rr.com 2007-02-28 16:56 MST ------- Default Component Open http and https URLs [ ] In an application based on the contents of the URL [*] In the following browser: [ kfmclient ] -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 llunak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|NEW |RESOLVED Resolution| |FIXED ------- Comment #3 from llunak@novell.com 2007-03-01 03:47 MST ------- Well, you've configured your KDE to open URLs with the utility which opens URLs with the configured handler. Not really surprising you get an infinite loop. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 webclark@rochester.rr.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|RESOLVED |REOPENED Resolution|FIXED | ------- Comment #4 from webclark@rochester.rr.com 2007-03-01 05:36 MST ------- I understand the foolishness of it from your point of view, however I was not even aware of this menu/setting, nor had I every heard of "kfmclient", so I would not/could not have typed it in if I had been aware of the setting. This leaves a more difficult question of what other ways that this invalid setting could have been made? I see this as a significant problem also. --- On another note, I have since checked the "good" accounts and found the "In an application...URL" setting checked. I switched to that on the "Bad" account and it now works. HOWEVER on the "Bad" account the "Manage Printing / hourglass" panel entry lives and the cursor bounces about 15-20 seconds after the application ("Home - CUPS...") comes up. Whereas on the "Good" accounts the initial panel entry and bouncy cursor are gone roughly instantly, replaced by the application. So this is different, and distracting/annoying behavior. Something else must be different. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218 llunak@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|REOPENED |RESOLVED Resolution| |INVALID ------- Comment #5 from llunak@novell.com 2007-03-07 07:06 MST ------- Sorry, but the setting is not there by default, I've never heard of having it configured that way and I seriously doubt we'd do it, so unless you can find what did that configuration change for you this is a user error from our point of view. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249218#c6
Daniel Mladek
participants (1)
-
bugzilla_noreply＠novell.com