[kde-freebsd] Reproducing "service ... is malformatted"

[Ralf Nolden]

Am Freitag, 22. April 2016, 22:54:10 schrieb Adriaan de Groot:
> One thing we sometimes run into on FreeBSD is messages "service ... is
> malformatted". This may-or-may-not be related to the occasional failure of
> kwalletd to open any wallets. It (both service malformatted and kwalletd
> problems) has been reported in the context of unclean shutdowns and of doing
> "halt -p" from outside the KDE session. As far as I know it's reported
> against KDE4 packages from official ports.
> 
> I've now got a way to reproduce this, but could use some hints on debugging
> what's going on next. Bunch of screenshots attached.
> 
>  - Reboot. Log in to KDE4. See, I have a konsole button next to the K-Menu
> (and a broken rekonq button, but that's beside the point). Clicking on that
> konsole button starts konsole. [shot1.png]
>  - Start VirtualBox from KRunner. [shot2.png]
>  - In VirtualBox, go to the settings of a VM, then to the storage section,
> and choose the CD drive. There's a button to choose a virtual CD image
> file. [shot3.png]
>  - Clicking on that button waits quite some time, then pops up a file
> chooser and an error message. [shot4.png]
>  - Hit ESC three times to back out of error message, file dialog, and VM
> settings dialog, back to VirtualBox's main window. Now click on that konsole
> button next to the K-Menu again. [shot5.png]
> 
> 
> So what is getting killed along the way?
I'm not sure - the only thing I did was adding this to ~/.profile:

KDE_FORK_SLAVES=1; export KDE_FORK_SLAVES

KWIN_DIRECT_GL=1; export KWIN_DIRECT_GL

The first one fixes the virtualbox error to open the filedialog. I guess the 
issues are coming from that area.


> 
> [ade]

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Kind regards,

Ralf Nolden