[Pkg-kde-extras] Bug#563155: Bug#563155: partitionmanager: does not start, and several zombie processes appear

[George Kiagiadakis]

severity 563155 important
thanks

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Jan Kusanagi <janjabber at gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: partitionmanager
> Version: 1.0.0-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
>
> Upon starting partitionmanager, it asks for root password, but then the window doesn't appear, and you can see in System Activity how several zombie "partitionmanager" processes appear. There is one which is not zombie, if you kill it, all of them disappear.
> It seems like the program starts OK if you execute partitionmanager-bin, and it offers the option of not using root privileges, and therefore hard drives do not appear listed, etc.
>
> Maybe it's a bug in kdesu or something, not really partitionmanager fault...
>
> I have my own debian-liveCD made with live-helper, and same thing happens, but there's no root password there, of course.
> If I set one up, same problems occur.s


Hi,
I can see that partitionmanager produces several zombie processes,
even by starting partitionmanager-bin as a user, and it looks like a
Qt bug. However, it starts fine, both as a normal user and as root.
For this reason, I am lowering the severity.

Would it be possible for you to provide a strace log of
partitionmanager when it locks up? Try running "strace -f -o logfile
partitionmanager-bin" as root, or if it doesn't hang that way, start
partitionmanager and do "strace -p $pid", where $pid is the pid of the
non-zombie partitionmanager-bin instance. I'd prefer the first way
though. I'd also like the output of "ps auxf" while strace is running.
Any other information is welcome too.

Regards,
George