kded4 crash inside a VM (kvm/qemu)

[Glenn Holmer]

On 04/09/2014 02:04 PM, Glenn Holmer wrote:
> Latest trusty with all updates applied.
>
> We run vnc4server inside our VMs to have tighter control over the port
> number and to be able to access the VNC session from other machines
> besides the host. We've been doing this for some time with Kubuntu
> 12.04, but when we first connect to the VNC server of the VM in 14.04,
> we see a segfault from kded4, and some apps like okular won't run
> because of it.
>
> We start vnc4server in the VMs like this:
>
> su $USER1 -l -s /bin/bash -c \
> "vncserver :1 -geometry 1024x768 -depth 24 -name $SESSION_NAME" 2>&1
>
> where $USER1 is the name of a user and $SESSION_NAME is the hostname of
> the VM with "1" or "2" appended.
>
> We edit ~/.vnc/xstartup to contain just the single line:
>
> . /etc/X11/Xsession
>
> I tried it also with "startkde" and got the same result.
>
> Is there a better way to do this? Is it a bug? Is there a better place
> to ask? I have a backtrace, but the crash dump reporter is telling me
> it's not useful.

Nothing to do with VM actually, happens on a real machine as well.

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Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682)
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