Comment 12 for bug 272399

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Fabio Zottele (fabio-zottele-gmail) wrote : Re: [Bug 272399] Re: File watcher causes Plasma crash on mouseover

Thank you Jonathan.
Your help is appreciated.

Fabio

2009/1/14, Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden>:
>
> ** Attachment added: "qt4-x11_4.4.3-0ubuntu1.2.diff.gz"
> http://launchpadlibrarian.net/21219167/qt4-x11_4.4.3-0ubuntu1.2.diff.gz
>
> --
> File watcher causes Plasma crash on mouseover
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/272399
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> Status in KDE Base Components: Fix Released
> Status in "qt4-x11" source package in Ubuntu: Fix Released
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace
>
> Plasma crashed when I moving plasmoid "File Watcher"
> I think that is qt-language-selector problem, because if language is English
> - no crashes.
>
> KUbuntu 8.10 alpha6 with all updates.
>
> ProblemType: Crash
> Architecture: i386
> Disassembly: 0xb7f7a430:
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
> ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/plasma
> Package: kdebase-workspace-bin 4:4.1.1-0ubuntu5
> ProcAttrCurrent: unconfined
> ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/plasma
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
> LANG=ru_RU.UTF-8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> Signal: 11
> SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
> Stacktrace: #0 0xb7f7a430 in ?? ()
> StacktraceTop: ?? ()
> ThreadStacktrace:
>
> Title: plasma crashed with SIGSEGV
> Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic i686
> UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout fuse lpadmin plugdev sambashare
>
>
> *Below added by Jonathan Thomas*
> Stable Release Update (SRU) infos:
> -Impact: Anybody who tries to configure the file watcher (or twitter)
> plasmoid via the "configure" button on the front of the plasmoid will
> recieve a crash next time they mouse over or click on the plasmoid after
> configuration.
> -Addressed by: This bug has been addressed by adding a Qt-copy patch set
> for release in Qt 4.4.4, which properly clears focus, preventing the crash
> -Testcase: Install kdebase-workspace and kdeplasma-addons. Add the file
> watcher plasmoid to the desktop. Configure the plasmoid by clicking the
> configure button in the middle of the currently-blank plasmoid and select a
> file for it to watch. Once you press ok on the settings dialog, mouse over
> or click the plasmoid, and plasma should crash.
> -Patch/regression potential: The patch is extremely small, set for release
> with Qt 4.4.4, and it included in KDE's Qt-copy, making the regression
> potential for this very small. In my testing I have not noticed regressions.
>

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