KDevelop (running session) stuck in loop after opening a directory

[Milian Wolff]

On Mittwoch, 6. Februar 2019 12:12:28 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wanted to open a file from the commandline in a running KDevelop session
> but sent the enclosing directory by accident. This gave me a timeout
> ("Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)"). KDevelop
> basically froze (I had to send it a HUP to do a "harder but still graceful
> exit").
> 
> Judging from the scintillating window in which I could just make out that it
> says Progress some kio agent must be launched and relaunched at maximum
> speed.
> 
> As far as I can tell this happens when the directory in question is a
> subdirectory of a git working copy; when I copy the directory outside of
> any other git project the issue disappears and I get a normal project
> import dialog.

Please tell us the exact steps to reproduce. I cannot reproduce.

> Is there an easy way (that doesn't involve digging through a load of threads
> in a debugger) to determine which agent is being launched, or is there a
> way to stop the cycle that doesn't involve killing the session? (FWIW, the
> clean exit triggered by SIGINT and SIGTERM gets stuck, only the SIGHUP
> processing from my D16218 gives a clean exit that doesn't corrupt the
> cache.)

use strace?

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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