knetattach crashes on login

[paradox]

Hi
I've just installed the latest security/bugfixes including some for Kde and the latest kernel for 12.04 and now every time i login i get a system information notification error saying an application has crashed now or in the past. This is caused by knetattach crashing. I am unable to send an error report as apparently the report has been truncated and can't be sent. Any ideas? This happened a couple of years ago but dissapeared with some kde bug/security fixes.

regards

paradox

[life0riley]

This happens intermittently to me. I just acknowledge, relaunch, and move on. A little googling shows some bug reports, but I don't see where it was ever resolved.

Here is an older post on this forum about it.
The application KNetAttach has closed unexpectedly

[paradox]

This happens intermittently to me. I just acknowledge, relaunch, and move on. A little googling shows some bug reports, but I don't see where it was ever resolved.

Here is an older post on this forum about it.
The application KNetAttach has closed unexpectedly

Thanks i was just more curious than concerned. As you say it doesn't seem to have much of an impact

[Rod J]

Oh dear, I used to have this annoying crash myself just about every day. It stopped a few months ago, thankfully after some update. I saw that the updates yesterday included KNetAttach and I wondered if this might upset things again!

So far, I've only restarted and started my system once without issue ... hope it is OK.

[Rod J]

Great ... now it crashes every start/restart probably worse than it did originally

I also get another error when I click on the Continue button from the original KNetAttach crash:

"Invalid problem report - Apport KDE

This problem report is damaged and cannot be processed.

IOError(u'Invalid core dump: BFD: Warning: /tmp/tmpuW3ZP0 is truncated: expected core file size >= 60002304, found: 2162688.',)"

I could probably avoid that error if I uncheck the "Send crash report" box. I just noticed the original poster mentioned the truncated error message too.

Maybe it's time to upgrade to 14.04?

[SteveRiley]

Earlier today I learned about the Network item in Dolphin's Places panel (yes, after all these years, I've never used that before). Adding a network folder here runs the knetattach binary, which configures a network place. The resulting .desktop file is stored in ~/.kde/share/apps/remoteview/. Take a look in that subdirectory on your PC. Do you have any .desktop files? If so, perhaps one of them is corrupt, and knetattach is failing. Try deleting the files there.

[Rod J]

I only have one .desktop file there: UltraPlus.desktop. It's a link to my FreeView satellite PVR. It's contents are:

[Desktop Entry]
Charset=
Icon=folder-remote
Name=UltraPlus
Type=Link
URL=smb://172.16.0.4/STORAGE/HDD/Recordings/

Looks OK to me.

[SteveRiley]

If you temporarily move that someplace else, does the error at least go away? It's a long shot guess, I'll admit.

[paradox]

I don't have any files at all in that directory.

[SteveRiley]

Well, like I said... long-shot guess.

[life0riley]

I'm getting this after the latest updates.



I don't think there are any issues. It just couldn't send the error report. KNetAttach relaunched.

These packages were upgrade on my system today.

The following packages will be upgraded:
  flac libflac++6 libflac8 libksba8
4 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

For me KNetAttach crashes have happened from day one and are intermittent, so I really can't say what caused it this time. The only thing new this time is the problem report is damaged.

[life0riley]

The crash file is here.

life0riley@life0riley-desktop:~$ cd /var/crash
life0riley@life0riley-desktop:/var/crash$ 
life0riley@life0riley-desktop:/var/crash$ ls -lt
total 712
-rw-r----- 1 life0riley life0riley 728166 Nov 28 20:59 _usr_bin_nepomukservicestub.1001.crash
-rw-rw-r-- 1 life0riley life0riley      0 Nov 23 15:37 _usr_bin_nepomukservicestub.1001.upload
life0riley@life0riley-desktop:/var/crash$

I compared it to an old crash file I saved, and it is definitely truncated. Is it possible that it gets truncated because it is too large?

This is the file from today.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/9294179/

Compare this to an older one from 2013.
http://paste.ubuntu.com/9294238/

[Rod J]

Well, it's been a few days now without any KNetAttach crash after several starts/restarts, so it looks like a later update may have resolved the problem with my system at least.

I hope others are having the same experience.

[life0riley]

I just had a KNetAttach crash today.