konqueror: After upgrading kfmclient loops when open a link in another kde-app (e.g. kmail)

[Gerhard Gaussling]

Package: konqueror
Version: 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5
Severity: normal


One reason for this bug-report is, to see if reportbug behaves still
like in #583

https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/reportbug/+bug/583

After upgrading my computer from hoary to breezy I was first not able to
launch a link in konqueror from within kmail.
It only showed up a button in the gnome-kicker (don't know the right
name) and jumped and flickered all the time in a loop, and pushed the
cpu to 100% and my computer began to crawl. It wasn't easy to kill
kfmclient due to the processor load. 

Due to the lack of my english I quote the details of the bug from a forum:
http://www.kde-forum.org/drucken/13419/1/KMail---Links-in-email-cause-Konqueror-to-hangRESO.html

[quote]
Posted by frozenJim on 16.09.2005 at21:13:
KMail - Links in email cause Konqueror to hang.[RESOLVED]

I don't know if I am alone with this problem, but if I click on a link
in KMail, Konqueror tries to open but slows the system to a crawl while
the little Konqueror cursor bounces up and down forever.

To fix this, I must pop into my terminal and killall kfmclient (there
are many incidents of kfmclient trying to openURL - more every minute!
They all look identical:
code:

1:	james   7112 11.0  2.5  25796 13012 ?   R   15:08   0:00
	kfmclient [kdeinit] openURL
	http://www.kde-forum.org/register.php?action=activation&usri...



	The killall solution is simple for me, but I am building
	KDE-based systems for my clients and this kind of thing is a
	show-stopper.

[...]
Posted by frozenJim on 18.09.2005 at21:53:
created a new user on the same machine. New user had no problem opening
links from other apps. So the problem is in my config for MY user.

I STILL don't know where everything is in KDE. I believe that this is my
only complaint about KDE - I cannot intuit where settings are made.

Anywho... under Settings->KDE Components->Component Chooser, I checked
out the "Web Browser" listitem. Once I saw it, I recalled that long ago
I was using FireFox as my default browser but had changed it back to
Konqueror as I became more accustomed to "the KDE way".

Now, you'd THINK that to change it back to Konqueror one would simply
click on the little file-chooser button and browse to the "Konqueror"
program. And this is what I did. AND this is where the "kfmclient" comes
from - that's the name of the Konqueror program.

BUT THIS IS THE WRONG WAY!

There are two radio buttons available in the "Default Component" section
under the heading "Open HTTP and HTTPS URLs:

    * in an application based on the contents of the URL
        * in the following browser: (this is where I had chosen
	* kfmclient)

	So who on Earth would guess that the correct choice is "in an
	application based on the contents of the URL"? (grin)

	My problem is solved. And I know a bit more about KDE now too.

[/quote]

Thank you

Kind regards

Gerhard Gaußling

I'm wondering if this hit's the ubuntu-user mailing list again ;-)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers breezy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'breezy-updates'), (500, 'breezy-security'), (500, 'breezy')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-9-amd64-generic
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages konqueror depends on:
ii  kcontrol         4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5        control center for KDE
ii  kdebase-kio-plug 4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5        core I/O slaves for KDE
ii  kdelibs4c2       4:3.4.3-0ubuntu1        core libraries for all KDE applica
ii  kdesktop         4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5        miscellaneous binaries and files f
ii  kfind            4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5        file-find utility for KDE
ii  libart-2.0-2     2.3.17-1                Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii  libaudio2        1.7-2ubuntu2            The Network Audio System (NAS). (s
ii  libc6            2.3.5-1ubuntu12         GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libfontconfig1   2.3.2-1ubuntu4          generic font configuration library
ii  libfreetype6     2.1.7-2.4ubuntu1        FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii  libgamin0        0.1.5-0ubuntu1          Client library for the gamin file 
ii  libgcc1          1:4.0.1-4ubuntu9        GCC support library
ii  libice6          1:6.3.5-4               X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libidn11         0.5.13-1.0              GNU libidn library, implementation
ii  libjpeg62        6b-10                   The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libkonq4         4:3.4.3-0ubuntu5        core libraries for Konqueror
ii  libpcre3         5.0-1.1ubuntu2          Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expressi
ii  libpng12-0       1.2.8rel-1ubuntu3       PNG library - runtime
ii  libqt3-mt        3:3.3.4-8ubuntu5        Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii  libsm6           1:6.0.4-4               X11 Session Management library
ii  libstdc++6       4.0.1-4ubuntu9          The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  libx11-6         1:6.2.1+cvs.20050722-8  X11 client-side library
ii  libxcursor1      1.1.4-0ubuntu5          X cursor management library
ii  libxext6         1:6.4.3-3               X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii  libxft2          2.1.7-1ubuntu5          FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii  libxi6           1:1.3.0-2               X11 Input extension library
ii  libxinerama1     1:1.1.0+cvs.20050821-1  X11 Xinerama extension library
ii  libxrandr2       1:1.0.2-2               X11 RandR extension library
ii  libxrender1      1:0.9.0-1               X Rendering Extension client libra
ii  libxt6           1:0.99.0+cvs.20050803-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii  zlib1g           1:1.2.3-3ubuntu4        compression library - runtime

konqueror recommends no packages.

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