KNode crashes

[Timothy Murphy]

Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> KNode crashes about 50% of the time when I post something.
>> I know this has been reported as a bug,
>> but I wondered if anyone has worked out when it happens,
>> and if so whether it is possible to circumvent it?
> 
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182322
> 
> This will be fixed in kdelibs-4.2.0-11.fc10, now building in Koji.
> 
> This was fixed upstream back on January 29! We need more efficient ways to
> identify serious bugs such as this and their fixes so we can get the fixes
> backported in a timely manner. Having KNode completely broken a month 
after
> upstream fixed the problem is not acceptable!
> 
> Some questions we should ask ourselves:
> * Why was this not caught before 4.2.0 got pushed to testing? The update 
was
> only pushed to testing on February 5, if we had known about the issue and
> the fix we could have fixed it right away.
> * Why was this not caught when 4.2.0 was still in testing? The update was
> only pushed to stable on February 13, if we had known about the issue and
> the fix we could have fixed it before the update hit stable.
> * Once the bug was finally noticed (after the update hit stable), why did 
it
> take so long to find out that this is already fixed upstream and the
> revision? (Or if anybody already knew about it, why didn't you backport 
the
> fix or ask us to backport it? KNode being entirely unusable sure deserves
> an immediate fix!)

Thanks.
I agree entirely.

I may have a kind of Heath-Robinson solution.
When posting an article there are two windows - 
the post and the main knode window.
I find if I minimize both windows before clicking File=>Send Now
then knode does not crash, at least not so often.
I shall test this now ....

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