kdevelop hangs when searching for new documentation

[Milian Wolff]

On Saturday 13 December 2014 12:04:37 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I had an older kdevelop/KF5 build in my Project Neon5 tree, so have been
> spending some time to update that to git/head (as of yesterday). The older
> version crashed often, for instance when I tried to update the location of
> the Qt documentation via the Settings dialog; this seems to have been
> resolved in the latest version. The layout of that dialog is now correct
> too, no longer "compressed". However, then I thought I'd check for new
> online documentation, and got the error The file 
> "/home/bertin/.project-neon5-kde//local/share/knewstuff3/kdevelop-qthelp.kn
> sregistry"  could not be opened.
> 
> Indeed, that file got installed under
> .project-neon5-kde/share/apps/knewstuff3

That file is not installed at all. It is created/copied at runtime into your 
XDG_DATA_HOME folder, did you set that up correctly?

> The install location issue aside, kdevelop hangs even after pointing
> local/share/knewstuff3 to the correct location. I do see an additional
> error
> codecForName: ucnv_open failed ISO-8859-16 U_FILE_ACCESS_ERROR
> 
> but I'm not sure if it's related (nor where it comes from, that's not my
> locale setting).
> 
> Is this a known issue, or one I should report on BKO?

Not known, report it. But whenever something hangs, attach a debugger and get 
a backtrace. Without that, the info is rather useless.

Bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
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