Hello all.

I am having an annoying trouble here.

I had a crash of konqueror (I have reported it here) And now, when I launch the program, it ever crashes at the start up.

I have removed the folder .kde4/share/share/apps/konqueror, the files konq_history, konqsidebartngrc, konquerorrc in .kde4/share/config but it has not solved the crashes.

Does anybody have any idea how can I launch konqueror without it crashes?

I am using KDE 4.7.4

Thanks so much

P.D.: when I launch it from the terminal not crashes, but if I launch it from krunner or the plasmoid Icon-Only Task Manager, crashes

Have you tried clearing the contents of /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/ and ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/ outside KDE? (I ask about share/apps/konqueror because Konqueror can execute a preloaded instance)

bcooksley wrote:Have you tried clearing the contents of /var/tmp/kdecache-$USER/ and ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror/ outside KDE? (I ask about share/apps/konqueror because Konqueror can execute a preloaded instance)

Outside KDE, means, for example, without the X server load?

Thanks for answering

Correct. No KDE processes should be running on your system.

did not work

Maybe, by removing the khtml config file? (really I don't know if this file exists)

Try running kdebugdialog if you have it, and enable anything related to konqueror/khtml, then you can find information in the error file, ~/.xsession-errors normally

sredna wrote:Try running kdebugdialog if you have it, and enable anything related to konqueror/khtml, then you can find information in the error file, ~/.xsession-errors normally

Thank you.

I have installed kdebugdialog and enabled all related to konqueror and khtml

I don't have any file .xsession-errors at my home folder

No way I can solve this.

I have renamed the folder .kde4 into my home folder, and I have renamed my home folder too, but always the crash occurs

OK, I have updated to KDE 4.8 and it was solved

It appeared again.

When I have updated to KDE 4.8 I had not the crash by a while, but
after, it appeared again.

Can you reproduce under a new user?
Also, does it continue to always crash now?

bcooksley wrote:Can you reproduce under a new user?
Also, does it continue to always crash now?

Yes, I can reproduce it under a new user.

Yes, it always crahes, except when I launch it from the terminal:

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$ konqueror

The continuing to crash unless started from the terminal issue is highly unusual. Gather if you launcher it using KRunner with the "Run command" option it still crashes?

Yes it also crashes.

It crashes using any kde instance (desktop launchr, krunner, plasmoids, etc)

Thank you for your preoccupation

Just to confirm, you have tried killing all Konqueror instances and removing ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror correct?

It should be impossible in theory for Konqueror to be remembering any form of state - as the crash recovery metadata is stored under ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror

bcooksley wrote:Just to confirm, you have tried killing all Konqueror instances and removing ~/.kde4/share/apps/konqueror correct?

Yes

On another subject, I have found one interesting thing. When Konqueror can't find libpng14.so.14 it does not crash at the startup and gives this message:

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There was an error loading the module KHTML.
The diagnostics is:
Cannot load library /usr/lib/kde4/libkhtmlpart.so: (libpng14.so.14: no se puede abrir el fichero del objeto compartido: No existe el fichero o el directorio)

By running ldd comand, in fact libpng14.so.14 is missing:

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$ ldd /usr/lib/kde4/libkhtmlpart.so
        linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0xb76fb000)
        libkdecore.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.5 (0xb73df000)
        libkhtml.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.5 (0xb6c02000)
        libQtCore.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 (0xb6927000)
        libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0xb683e000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0xb669c000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0xb667f000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0xb6664000)
        libQtNetwork.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 (0xb6520000)
        libQtDBus.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtDBus.so.4 (0xb64a1000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xb648a000)
        libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0xb6479000)
        liblzma.so.5 => /usr/lib/liblzma.so.5 (0xb6453000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0xb6427000)
        libphonon.so.4 => /usr/lib/libphonon.so.4 (0xb63c0000)
        libkparts.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkparts.so.4 (0xb6367000)
        libktexteditor.so.4 => /usr/lib/libktexteditor.so.4 (0xb6325000)
        libkjs.so.4 => /usr/lib/libkjs.so.4 (0xb6235000)
        libjpeg.so.8 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.8 (0xb61e2000)
        libgif.so.4 => /usr/lib/libgif.so.4 (0xb61da000)
        libpng14.so.14 => not found
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libX11.so.6 (0xb60a3000)
        libkio.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkio.so.5 (0xb5db6000)
        libQtXml.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtXml.so.4 (0xb5d76000)
        libkdeui.so.5 => /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 (0xb58aa000)
        libQtGui.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 (0xb4de2000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0xb4ddc000)
        libgthread-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgthread-2.0.so.0 (0xb4dd7000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0xb4dce000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb4cd5000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xb76fc000)
        libssl.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.0.0 (0xb4c7d000)
        libcrypto.so.1.0.0 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.0.0 (0xb4ad6000)
        libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0xb4a8c000)
        libpulse.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpulse.so.0 (0xb4a3e000)
        libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpulse-mainloop-glib.so.0 (0xb4a38000)
        libqzeitgeist.so.1 => /usr/lib/libqzeitgeist.so.1 (0xb4a14000)
        libnepomuk.so.4 => /usr/lib/libnepomuk.so.4 (0xb492c000)
        libnepomukutils.so.4 => /usr/lib/libnepomukutils.so.4 (0xb48e6000)
        libpcre.so.0 => /lib/libpcre.so.0 (0xb4889000)
        libxcb.so.1 => /usr/lib/libxcb.so.1 (0xb486b000)
        libQtSvg.so.4 => /usr/lib/libQtSvg.so.4 (0xb4816000)
        libstreamanalyzer.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstreamanalyzer.so.0 (0xb478b000)
        libsolid.so.4 => /usr/lib/libsolid.so.4 (0xb46a9000)
        libacl.so.1 => /lib/libacl.so.1 (0xb46a1000)
        libattr.so.1 => /lib/libattr.so.1 (0xb469c000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0xb4694000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/lib/libSM.so.6 (0xb468c000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/lib/libICE.so.6 (0xb4675000)
        libattica.so.0.3 => /usr/lib/libattica.so.0.3 (0xb4574000)
        libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdbusmenu-qt.so.2 (0xb453a000)
        libXtst.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6 (0xb4535000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0xb452a000)
        libXfixes.so.3 => /usr/lib/libXfixes.so.3 (0xb4525000)
        libpng15.so.15 => /usr/lib/libpng15.so.15 (0xb44f4000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0xb4458000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb4408000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0xb43da000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXext.so.6 (0xb43c7000)
        libjson.so.0 => /usr/lib/libjson.so.0 (0xb43be000)
        libpulsecommon-1.1.so => /usr/lib/libpulsecommon-1.1.so (0xb4357000)
        libsoprano.so.4 => /usr/lib/libsoprano.so.4 (0xb425b000)
        libsopranoclient.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsopranoclient.so.1 (0xb4202000)
        libnepomukquery.so.4 => /usr/lib/libnepomukquery.so.4 (0xb41aa000)
        libXau.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXau.so.6 (0xb41a7000)
        libXdmcp.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXdmcp.so.6 (0xb41a2000)
        libstreams.so.0 => /usr/lib/libstreams.so.0 (0xb416a000)
        libxml2.so.2 => /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2 (0xb401d000)
        libudev.so.0 => /lib/libudev.so.0 (0xb400c000)
        libuuid.so.1 => /lib/libuuid.so.1 (0xb4006000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/lib/libXi.so.6 (0xb3ff6000)
        libffi.so.5 => /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 (0xb3fef000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0xb3fc5000)
        libsndfile.so.1 => /usr/lib/libsndfile.so.1 (0xb3f52000)
        libasyncns.so.0 => /usr/lib/libasyncns.so.0 (0xb3f4b000)
        libFLAC.so.8 => /usr/lib/libFLAC.so.8 (0xb3efb000)
        libvorbisenc.so.2 => /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2 (0xb3d83000)
        libvorbis.so.0 => /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 (0xb3d57000)
        libogg.so.0 => /usr/lib/libogg.so.0 (0xb3d4f000)
        libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0xb3d35000)
        libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0xb3d1e000)

And so, when libpng14.so.14 is missing, I don't get the crash...

I have noticed it by updating all packages on my system except kdelibs 4.8.0-1 (first archlinux's packaging for kdelibs) to kdelibs 4.8.0-2 (second archlinux's packaging for kdelibs)

Also, using kdelibs 4.8.0-2 konqueror still crashes at the startup.

Another interesting thing. I create my own packages for kdelibs downloading the oficial PKGBUILD and compiling it on my machine.

When I install on the system my own kdelibs-4.8.0-2 package konqueror crashes, but when I install the same package from the official Archlinux's repositories, it does not. So, I am guessing the problem is in the compilation process that I am doing.

The only changes I make on the official Archlinux's PKGBUILD for kdelibs are: add the option !strip, in the option field (it does not strip the compiled libraries, run man strip for further information) and switching the build type (-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE) from Release to debugfull. I do it for getting the debugging symbols in the compiled libraries and so to get fully backtraces when any application crashes (for reporting them on the KDE's bug tracker).

Can see the PKGBUILD edited by myself here