[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482

Nate Graham  changed:

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 Status|NEEDSINFO   |RESOLVED
 Resolution|BACKTRACE   |WORKSFORME

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[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[david . m . greene]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482

--- Comment #5 from david.m.gre...@gmail.com  ---
Aleix Pol> Hey, can you provide a backtrace? Also I'd need some more
information, for example what Discover version are you using.

Nate Graham>  Unfortunately the version of Discover packaged with
Kubnutu 17.04 is super rough and buggy.

I think Nate's comment explains the problem -- I was using the version
of Discover packaged with the 64-bit Kubuntu 17.04 download (from
https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/ ).

On an older Windows laptop, I used the Universal Installer recommended here --

https://www.pendrivelinux.com/put-kubuntu-10-04-on-a-flash-drive-using-windows/

to put a Live CD-equivalent copy of Kubuntu on a USB drive.  It seemed
to work fine.  After a reboot, Kubuntu was running on the laptop with
no apparent errors.

I immediately tried to use Discover to look at what software packages
are available, and ran into trouble -- slowed me down a bit on my
attempt to move to Linux on that laptop.

Sounds like the crash is more or less a known issue, so it's probably
fine to close this bug.  If I see it again on a newer version of
Discover I'll email again.

Many thanks --


Dave

On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 7:07 AM, Christoph Feck
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> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482
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> --- Comment #4 from Christoph Feck  ---
> David, any success with comment #1 or comment #3?
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[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[Christoph Feck]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482

--- Comment #4 from Christoph Feck  ---
David, any success with comment #1 or comment #3?

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[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham  ---
I also use Kubuntu 17.04 as my primary OS. Unfortunately the version of
Discover packaged with Kubnutu 17.04 is super rough and buggy. Frankly it's not
worth using at all, and most of the bugs you're likely to encounter have
already been fixed in newer versions that aren't available directly in Kubuntu
17.04 yet.

If you're feeling a bit adventurous, you can update to newer versions of KDE
software (which includes Discover) by adding the backports PPA to your system:
https://launchpad.net/~kubuntu-ppa/+archive/ubuntu/backports

Executing the following commands should do it:
  sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports
  sudo apt update

Then you can do the following to update to a newer version of Discover
  sudo apt install plasma-discover

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[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[david . m . greene]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482

--- Comment #2 from david.m.gre...@gmail.com  ---
> Hey, can you provide a backtrace? Also I'd need some more information,
> for example what Discover version are you using.
I can produce a backtrace eventually, but it will be a while before I get back
to the laptop where the problem occurred.  I'll check tonight on my own laptop
and see if the same crash happens there.

This is a first foray back into Linux for me after a gap of a few years, so
please don't expect any kind of expertise.

The version of Discover is whatever is packaged with the 64-bit Kubuntu 17.04
download (from https://kubuntu.org/getkubuntu/ ) -- I'll look and send an
update tonight.

I used the Universal Installer recommended here --

https://www.pendrivelinux.com/put-kubuntu-10-04-on-a-flash-drive-using-windows/

to put a Live CD-equivalent copy of Kubuntu on a USB drive.  It seemed to work
fine.  After a reboot, Kubuntu was running on the laptop with no apparent
errors.

I immediately tried to use Discover to look at what software packages are
available.  I didn't have a mouse-with-wheel plugged in, so I tried the down
arrow key as an alternative to scrolling with the track pad.  This worked fine
in some categories.  But in the Games and Graphics categories, Discover
immediately crashed.

I've done absolutely nothing else with Kubuntu yet.

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[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[Aleix Pol]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=385482

Aleix Pol  changed:

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--- Comment #1 from Aleix Pol  ---
Hey, can you provide a backtrace? Also I'd need some more information, for
example what Discover version are you using.

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[Discover] [Bug 385482] Discover crashes immediately when scrolling through Games section with down arrow key

[Nate Graham]

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