[Xfce-bugs] [XFCE 0000312]: KDE 3.3. apps crash and burn under XFCE 4.2CVS

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http://bugs.xfce.org/view_bug_page.php?f_id=0000312
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Reporter:                   philstopford
Handler:                    bmeurer
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Project:                    XFCE
Bug ID:                     0000312
Category:                   general
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     assigned
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Date Submitted:             2004-09-04 14:01 UTC
Last Modified:              2004-09-12 08:13 UTC
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Summary:                    KDE 3.3. apps crash and burn under XFCE 4.2CVS
Description: 
This was reported on the forums - I wasn't aware of this bug tracking
system. Konqueror and the KOffice apps all fail with something like the
following shown in the console :

ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 7373, errno = 32 

They all load the interface as it is shown on screen, but before you get a
chance to use the application, it quits.

The problem has been present since KDE 3.3b1
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 bmeurer - 2004-09-04 16:29 UTC 
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ICE is used for both Session Management and DCOP in KDE. The first could be
a problem in xfce4-session or in the kdelibs. The second would definetly be
a KDE problem. Try enabling KDE compatibility in the session management
properties and restart your session.

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 philstopford - 2004-09-11 17:56 UTC 
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Enabling the KDE service option in the session management dialog appears to
resolve the issues with CVS from 7th September compiled on a fresh SuSE 9.1
system updated through to the latest of everything including KDE via
apt4rpm and apt-get dist-upgrade.

All is well now. I'd suggest making this either default behaviour or much
more obvious, though, as it would be easily missed by users.

edited on: 09-11 17:56

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 sweiss - 2004-09-12 08:09 UTC 
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The apps seem to behave like this in the first time you run them, the
second time they act normal. I recall enabling KDE compatibility and it
did not seem resolve the issue. I'm using KDE 3.3 and XFCE 4.2 compiled on
Sept. 9th.

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 bmeurer - 2004-09-12 08:13 UTC 
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Hm, the only reason I can think of, could be that the app responds _really_
slow (which can be the case for KDE apps, cause they first need to fork
several other daemons, like the dcop server, kdeinit, etc.).