[Bug 242928] If one drags and drops an application icon onto the desktop, KDE crashes and goes away

[Mike Bechtold]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=242928


Mike Bechtold <wmb1204 at fuse.net> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Mike Bechtold <wmb1204 fuse net>  2010-06-27 23:50:16 ---
(In reply to comment #0)
> Version:           unspecified (using KDE 1.2) 
> OS:                FreeBSD
> 
> I'm running PC-BSD 8.0, which comes with KDE 4.3. I'm running Firefox from the
> PC-BSD supplied PBI install file. I tried to drag and drop the Firefox icon
> from the applications list to the desktop, but when I did, KDE crashed and
> disappeared: no tool bar, no icons, no wallpaper, only the original KDE theme.
> I used Alt-f2 to open Konsole, and typed:
> 
> move .kde4 .kde4-backup
> 
> and rebooted, which gave me a desktop back, although without the PC-BSD splash
> screen after login. I have reproduced this bug three times now; it is
> consistent.
> 
> Reproducible: Always
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> I used Firefox, but pick any application icon from the KDE start menu, and try
> to drag it onto the desktop in file folder mode. 
> 
> Actual Results:  
> See above
> 
> Expected Results:  
> KDE crashes and the desktop disappears. I get a dialog box that asks me to file
> a bug report. 
> 
> When performing this icon, I should get a dialog box that asks if I want to
> copy the icon to the desktop in the manner of an alias. That desired behavior
> is documented on the PC-BSD forum.

Nicolas: thanks for your quick response!

The backtrace information generated by the KDE bug application was as follows:

executable: plasma-desktop PID: 2251 Signal: 11 (Segmentation Fault: 11)
Plasma Workspace closed unexpectedly.

This information was labeled as "insufficient" by the KDE bug program, and so I
have posted a request on the PC-BSD forum to find out how to generate a better
report. FreeBSD needs to have the tools included in the initial compilation and
installation of KDE; I'm unaware of how to do this in PC-BSD, which is based on
FreeBSD but comes pre-compiled, and so will pursue that issue. I duplicated the
crash three times, so given the correct tools should be able to generate the
information required.

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