Bug 508972

Summary: Plasma Desktop crashes when I disable/enable wireless
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.2 Reporter: Forgotten User 6duQ5wa6_H <forgotten_6duQ5wa6_H>
Component: KDE4 WorkspaceAssignee: Will Stephenson <wstephenson>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Milestone 2   
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Other   
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Description Forgotten User 6duQ5wa6_H 2009-06-02 05:21:38 UTC
User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090426 SUSE/3.5b4-2.1 Firefox/3.5b4

Application that crashed: plasma-desktop
Version of the application: 0.3
KDE Version: 4.2.86 (KDE 4.2.86 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090514)) "release 1"
Qt Version: 4.5.1
Operating System: Linux 2.6.30-rc6-git3-4-default i686

What I was doing when the application crashed:
Enabling wireless causes the Plasma workspace to crash. It gets jumbled (like panel widget suddenly goes to the top of the screen, a square shape in the upper left corner goes transparent (light gray checkerboard) and the rest of the screen becomes useless. 

I wait for a moment for it to restart before being able to do anything.
 -- Backtrace:Application: 

Message I got:
Plasma Workspace (kdeinit), signal: Segmentation fault
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xb5eb3710 (LWP 18317))]

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Disable Wireless from the Network Management icon in the system tray
2.Enable wireless from the same place
3.
Actual Results:  
Screen gets unusable, with the panel shifting around, a transparent square shape shows up on the upper right corner (approximately where the Folder View widget is located) and the screen looking sheered. Results vary, sometimes just doing the screen sheering, other times doing more.

Left for a moment, the system restarts the crashed item and the computer is usable once more.

Expected Results:  
Just list available wireless connections or not.
Comment 1 Forgotten User 6duQ5wa6_H 2009-06-02 05:39:28 UTC
I have also not been able to connect to my wireless router at this time, even though it is set as auto-connect.
Comment 2 Stephan Binner 2009-08-08 18:12:47 UTC
NetworkManager-kde4 from KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop is now again a systray app and no plasmoid anymore.