Issues with Solid from trunk and qtcreator 2.0.1...

[Dawit A]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Lukáš Tinkl <ltinkl at redhat.com> wrote:
> Dne St 27. října 2010 00:57:27 Christophe Giboudeaux napsal(a):
>> Hi,
>>
>> Le 27/10/2010 00:20, Dawit A a écrit :
>> > Does anyone have a problem opening project files (CTRL+O) in qtcreator
>> > 2.0.1 (Qt 4.7) with the current trunk version of kdelibs ?
>> >
>> > For me the minute I try to open a project, the screen flashes as if to
>> > paint the file dialog and then qtcreator completely freezes. Using gdb
>> > (backtrace) I see that the issue seems to occur when the file dialog
>> > attempts to find Places information through Solid. Solid in turn
>> > queries udisks (no hal on my system) through dbus to retrieve
>> > information about each of the several devices available on my machine
>> > and takes a very very very long time (many minutes) to do it. Any
>> > insight I can get into this would be helpful before I waste even more
>> > time to try and find out what could possibly be causing this issue for
>> > me...
>>
>> See https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253039
>
> Strangely enough it happens only in non-KDE aplications anb i can't reproduce
> it... (not running HAL on my Fedora either); for me the open dialog in eg. Qt
> Creator shows immediately.

I am not running HAL on my system either. In fact hal is not even
installed at all. And the freeze happens for non-KDE apps only as
mentioned above. I was able to reproduce the problem with QtCreator
and VLC so far. I have added a comment on the bug report given above
with backtrace information from QtCreator...