[Bug 289361] New: System Settings doesn't launch properly

[Carl Symons]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289361

           Summary: System Settings doesn't launch properly
           Product: Active
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: openSUSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: Applications
        AssignedTo: active at kde.org
        ReportedBy: carlsymons at gmail.com


Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.7.3) 
OS:                Linux

clicking System Settings in App Launcher produces blank grey screen
momentarily. The same thing happens when launching systemsettings in Terminal,
where an error message is displayed...
systemsettings(1617): Communication problem with  "systemsettings" , ir
probably crashed.
Error message was:  "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not
receive a reply (time out by message bus)" "

In forum.kde.org [1], bcooksley suggested running
gdb --args systemsettings --nofork
After inspecting the backtrace results, bcooksley wrote:
This appears to be being caused by a infinite loop inside the KCategorizedView
code, which is a component of kdelibs used by System Settings. Please file a
bug report at bugs.kde.org.

[1] http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=211&t=98241

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. click icon for System Settings (displayed with search)
2. in Terminal, run systemsettings

Actual Results:  
momentary blank grey screen

Expected Results:  
System Settings screen should appear

Some of the applications that are displayed in the main System Settings can be
launched independently...notifications, desktop search

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