[Bug 286658] New: applications can't load when plain text file in the Autostart directory

[Divan Santana]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286658

           Summary: applications can't load when plain text file in the
                    Autostart directory
           Product: kde
           Version: 4.7
          Platform: Archlinux Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: unassigned-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: divan at s-tainment.co.za


Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

touch ~/.kde4/Autostart/file.log
$ ll ~/.kde4/Autostart/file.log 
-rw-r--r-- 1 divan users 0 Nov 15 10:41 /home/divan/.kde4/Autostart/file.log
$ file ~/.kde4/Autostart/file.log
/home/divan/.kde4/Autostart/file.log: empty

then reboot and login in to kde.
one will notice that if you then try to launch some applications like
firefox/rekonq/kwrite they all just hang from command line and don't open.

The reason is the kwrite has spawned in the background upon logging in and is
trying to open "/home/divan/.kde4/Autostart/file.log" but is hanging.
Killing this process makes the system resume to normal.

This is rather severe since it basically makes KDE completely unusable if one
puts a text file(that kwrite spawns) in the Autostart directory. Most users
won't know what is going on and there kde will be broken.

To fix simply remove the file.

I came across this bug since latest davmail creates an empty davmail.log file
in the Autostart directory and thereafter my system was broken because of this
bug.

If the file is not empty this bug still occures.
Reproducibility: always.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
As per above

Actual Results:  
As per above

Expected Results:  
If a plain text file(not executable) is in Autostart directory, kwrite should
launch it with no problem, not hang, and not hang other processes.

kde 4.7.3

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