Public bug reported: After installing the most recent system updates this morning (2026-03-18), my mother's taskbar (on both her desktop PC and her laptop) is now getting flooded out with DrKonqi icons as kioslave5 appears to launch and crash inside KExiv2Iface::KExiv2::load once for each JPEG that Dolphin tries to load a thumbnail for.
We've tried restarting in case it was some kind of ABI mismatch between a running daemon that didn't get restarted after being updated and in- process client code for it, but no change. I've also seen some applications not installed through Flatpak (eg. Geeqie, Gwenview) crashing when trying to open JPEGs, so I suspect the problem isn't in the `kio` package itself, but I'd prefer that someone more familiar with the architecture of these things do the triage for that, given how, as a non-KDE programmer, I know just enough to know how many circuitous routes exist for GTK apps like Geeqie to wind up calling into KDE code. (XDG Portals, kio-fuse, etc. etc. etc.) DrKonqi says it can't pre-fill a bug report for this because "kioslave5 does not provide a bug reporting address", so I've manually saved and attached the crash dump. (However, after KExiv2Iface::KExiv2::load, it stops at ??, there's no -dbg package, and I'm reluctant to take the initiative to follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash#Non- built-in_debug_symbol_packages_.28.2A-dbgsym.29 on a computer not mine when I don't even know if that wiki page is still current.) ``` $ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Release: 24.04 Codename: noble $ apt-cache policy kio kio: Installed: 5.115.0-0ubuntu6 Candidate: 5.115.0-0ubuntu6 Version table: *** 5.115.0-0ubuntu6 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy libkf5kexiv2-15.0.0 libkf5kexiv2-15.0.0: Installed: 23.08.5-0ubuntu3 Candidate: 23.08.5-0ubuntu3 Version table: *** 23.08.5-0ubuntu3 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/universe amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status $ apt-cache policy libexiv2-27 libexiv2-27: Installed: 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1 Candidate: 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1 Version table: *** 0.27.6-1ubuntu0.1 500 500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble-security/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 0.27.6-1build1 500 500 http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu noble/main amd64 Packages ``` ** Affects: kio (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "kioslave5-20260318-062559.kcrash" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2144739/+attachment/5953590/+files/kioslave5-20260318-062559.kcrash -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2144739 Title: Repeated kioslave5 crashes (inside KExiv2) after most recent update To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kio/+bug/2144739/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
