Bug 23964

Summary: KTimer Help crashes
Product: Mageia Reporter: Lewis Smith <lewyssmith>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: KDE maintainers <kde>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Low CC: marja11
Version: Cauldron   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Description Lewis Smith 2018-12-08 14:22:32 CET
Description of problem:
The KTimer window has a Help button (rather than menu). This launches a Help Centre window which reports "Failed to complete the task"  "The program terminated unexpectly". Among the details below:-
 URL: help:/ktimer/index.html
 Protocol: help
The KTimer application remains functional; just the Help crashes.

 $ ktimer
QSystemTrayIcon::setVisible: No Icon set
org.kde.khelpcenter: running ("/usr/bin/meinproc5", "--output", "/home/lewis/.cache/khelpcenter/help/glossary.xml", "--stylesheet", "/usr/share/khelpcenter/glossary.xslt", "") failed with exitCode 1
org.kde.khelpcenter: stderr output: ""
QWidget::paintEngine: Should no longer be called
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 1
QPainter::translate: Painter not active
etc etc

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
M7beta1 Classic ISO 2-4 Dec 2018. ktimer-18.08.3-1.mga7

How reproducible:
Every time.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch KTimer.
2. Click the Help button.
Lewis Smith 2018-12-08 15:10:05 CET

Priority: Normal => Low

Marja Van Waes 2018-12-09 11:52:10 CET

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 1 Lewis Smith 2019-04-16 21:03:33 CEST
M7beta3 x64 real h/w under XFCE from SDDM
 ktimer-18.12.3-1.mga7
The problem is fixed, the Help button opens a corrects KDE Help Centre window - headed "Documentation not Found". Thanks.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED