kded4 crashes randomly

Martin Kho lists.kho at gmail.com
Fri Jan 29 18:38:28 UTC 2010


On Friday 29 January 2010 19:22:55 Jan Simonson wrote:
> Hello Martin,
> 
> Ten days ago you wrote:
> > It looks like we are at the same level now. I too downgraded kpackagekit
> > 
> >  to  version 0.5.2-1 and ... the KDE Daemon didn't crash. Available
> >  updates are visible. The crashes didn't happen anymore, after I got the
> >  following
> > 
> >  updates:
> > Jan 16 11:26:49 Updated: libxcb-1.5-1.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:26:51 Updated: system-config-printer-libs-1.1.16-8.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:26:53 Updated: libxfcegui4-4.6.2-1.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:26:54 Updated: system-config-printer-udev-1.1.16-8.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:26:56 Updated: gdb-7.0.1-26.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:26:57 Updated: 1:xorg-x11-drv-
> > nouveau-0.0.15-19.20091105gite1c2efd.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:26:58 Updated: libxcb-devel-1.5-1.fc12.x86_64
> > Jan 16 11:27:00 Updated: system-config-printer-1.1.16-8.fc12.x86_64
> > 
> > Which one is relevant if one? I don't know. May be there is still
> > somewhere
> > 
> >  a  'red herring'? :-)
> 
> It might very well be one still left ;-)
> 
> A couple of days ago I suddenly started getting kded4 crashes after I
> checked for upgrades with kpackagekit and found at least one upgrade. As
> this was new, and I had been able to use kpackagekit without any problems
> since the last packagekit upgrade, I started downgrading what I had
> recently upgraded in other packages. However this didn't solve the
> crash-problem so I re-upgraded again. All the time I checked frequently if
> the kded4 crash still was there and it was!
> 
> After much thought I remembered that I had adjusted the KDE system-settings
> at about the time the crashes started. Some experimentation later I found
> that if the "Kpackagekit-tjänst" (-service in english) is started in
> system-settings > Advanced > Services kded4 crashes some ten minutes after
> kpackagekit is closed whether I actually upgraded something or not as long
> as there are upgrades available.
> 
> This is fully reproducible. I also have a backtrace but I doubt if it's of
> any use. It's included below anyhow. I use
> kpackagekit-0.5.2-1.fc12.x86_64.

Hi Jan,

In Koji you can find kpackagekit-0.5.2-2.fc12.x86_64. To me, this version 
doesn't crash and has automatic update notification fixed.

Hopes this helps,

Martin Kho

> 
> Regards
> Jan
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