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Apparenlty the prooblem with Konqueror dying trying to load the Blogger.com Dashboard was temporary. This post is made using Konqueror 3.5.2 (KDE 3.5.2). It appears that the problem may have had somewhat to do with the Spell Checker problems I was trying to post about earlier (at the time the Konqueor crash occurred.

The problem then was that Konqueror as configured by default under Knoppix 5.0.1 was still using the German language dictionary for spell-checking, even though I had changed the KDE language preference to US English (US-EN) using the KDE Kicker panel [I.E. "toolbar"] widget.

I have since restarted KDE (due to some problems that seemed to have been caused by my moving the system /tmp directory to an internal drive partition while KDE was still running) and Konqueror starts up and runs and has not [yet] crashed on the Blogger Dashboard interface.

The earlier crash which killed Konqueror for the duration of that KDE session occurred after the problems with the spell checker manifested, and after I clicked the Save Now button to save the post. The Save Now button did not "depress" at that time, and no draft of the message was saved. Immediately after the save operation failed is when I clicked the Dashboard link, which is what caused Konqueror to crash.

Note that at this time, the spell checker does not seem to be working at all in Konqueror (the Auto Spell Check option is checked, and the Check Spelling context menu command does nothing), and that

1. There is no "typeahead" pattern matching in the tags field of the blogger.com Posting interface as there is with Firefox v2.x
2. The layout of the blogger.com Posting interface in Konqueror is munged - there is a large whitespace block below the text entry area, between the bottom edge of the HTML textarea element and the the bottom edge of the boarder which encloses the HTML element. (above the Post Options link, the Labels (sic) [tags] entry field, Publish Post and Save Now buttons, etc.

Labels: blogger, crash, kde, konqueror, linux, v3.5.2

posted by pd wilson   #   06:42

Konqueror is :

1. Hanging while waiting for blogger.com to "Publish" a blog post.
2. Crashing; Konqueror will crash if - while the "publish" operation is in its infinite refresh loop, loading and reloading the "Please wait while your page is published" message page - the user
   1. opens another Konqueror window
   2. goes to view the blog in the new window [note that the post which initiated the publish operation has been posted - the post has uploaded and the blog has been updated, despite the braindead infinite loop the first window of Kongqueror is stuck in]
   3. goes back to the first window [where the ininfinite refresh loop is going on]
   4. clicks on the Blogger Dashboard link there, in the first window, while the infinite refresh loop is going on

Other info from the Crash Handler:

• Konqueror [crashed and] threw SIGILL.
• "The application was asked to save its documents"

Default browser indentification string for this version of Konqueror [note that I have broken the line below at the backslash]:

Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux 2.6.17; X11; i686; en_US)\
 KHTML/3.5.2 (like Gecko) (Debian package 4:3.5.2-2+b1)

Here is the backtrace data from the crash handler:

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[KCrash handler]
#5  0x08f95edc in ?? ()
#6  0xb62d57ae in DOM::checkChild () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#7  0xb629e96c in DOM::XMLAttributeReader::~XMLAttributeReader ()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#8  0xb6268f9e in KHTMLPart::saveState () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#9  0xb62289fe in KHTMLPartBrowserExtension::saveState ()
   from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#10 0xb6875b5f in KonqView::updateHistoryEntry ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#11 0xb6893a11 in KonqView::slotCompleted ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#12 0xb6893c23 in KonqView::slotCompleted ()
   from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#13 0xb689987d in KonqView::qt_invoke () from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#14 0xb72b8678 in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#15 0xb72b8fdc in QObject::activate_signal () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#16 0xb7f85e0a in KParts::ReadOnlyPart::completed ()
   from /usr/lib/libkparts.so.2
#17 0xb62581c0 in KHTMLView::timerEvent () from /usr/lib/libkhtml.so.4
#18 0xb72b5786 in QObject::event () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#19 0xb72f2b9a in QWidget::event () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#20 0xb724e87a in QApplication::internalNotify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#21 0xb724f5f5 in QApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#22 0xb792502e in KApplication::notify () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4
#23 0xb71e0001 in QApplication::sendEvent () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#24 0xb7240305 in QEventLoop::activateTimers () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#25 0xb71f3d2a in QEventLoop::processEvents () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#26 0xb7267255 in QEventLoop::enterLoop () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#27 0xb726717a in QEventLoop::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#28 0xb724d38d in QApplication::exec () from /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3
#29 0xb68be17c in kdemain () from /usr/lib/libkdeinit_konqueror.so
#30 0xb7fb1524 in kdeinitmain () from /usr/lib/kde3/konqueror.so
#31 0x0804e1d6 in ?? ()
#32 0x00000004 in ?? ()
#33 0x080cff68 in ?? ()
#34 0x00000001 in ?? ()
#35 0x00000000 in ?? ()

Labels: blogger, crash, kde, knoppix, konqueror, linux, v3.5.2

posted by pd wilson   #   09:47