Coredump from xdg-desktop-portal-kde

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I’m trying to diagnose a serious failure, NOT THE SUBJECT OF THIS POST, that stops me from using F36, and in the course of investigating that I found that some recent change has caused a coredump of xdg-desktop-portal-kde every time the GUI starts in F35 or F36.

In F35, that seems to be symptom free after getting the coredump. xdg-desktop-portal-kde is running (I assume a different instance of it, but I haven’t investigated that yet in detail).

Core was generated by `/usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-kde'.
Program terminated with signal SIGABRT, Aborted.

warning: Section `.reg-xstate/1503' in core file too small.
#0  __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:44
44            return INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERROR_P (ret) ? INTERNAL_SYSCALL_ERRNO (ret) : 0;
[Current thread is 1 (Thread 0x7f467ec159c0 (LWP 1503))]
(gdb) where
#0  __pthread_kill_implementation (threadid=<optimized out>, signo=signo@entry=6, no_tid=no_tid@entry=0) at pthread_kill.c:44
#1  0x00007f4680e8ec73 in __pthread_kill_internal (signo=6, threadid=<optimized out>) at pthread_kill.c:78
#2  0x00007f4680e3e986 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/posix/raise.c:26
#3  0x00007f4680e287f4 in __GI_abort () at abort.c:79
#4  0x00007f46816b14d5 in qt_message_fatal (message=<synthetic pointer>..., context=...) at global/qlogging.cpp:1914
#5  QMessageLogger::fatal (this=this@entry=0x7ffe4b83fd10, msg=msg@entry=0x7f46829585a7 "%s") at global/qlogging.cpp:893
#6  0x00007f468256341b in init_platform (argv=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, platformThemeName=..., platformPluginPath=..., 
    pluginNamesWithArguments=...) at kernel/qguiapplication.cpp:1254
#7  QGuiApplicationPrivate::createPlatformIntegration (this=0x5559a9add6e0) at kernel/qguiapplication.cpp:1477
#8  0x00007f46825638c8 in QGuiApplicationPrivate::createEventDispatcher (this=<optimized out>) at kernel/qguiapplication.cpp:1494
#9  0x00007f46818aeab1 in QCoreApplicationPrivate::init (this=this@entry=0x5559a9add6e0) at kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp:835
#10 0x00007f4682565c83 in QGuiApplicationPrivate::init (this=this@entry=0x5559a9add6e0) at kernel/qguiapplication.cpp:1523
#11 0x00007f46833b431d in QApplicationPrivate::init (this=0x5559a9add6e0) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:513
#12 0x00007f46833b4400 in QApplication::QApplication (this=this@entry=0x7ffe4b83ffa0, argc=@0x7ffe4b83ff6c: 1, argv=<optimized out>, 
    _internal=_internal@entry=331525) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:501
#13 0x00005559a8affad3 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>)
    at /usr/src/debug/xdg-desktop-portal-kde-5.25.5-1.fc36.x86_64/src/xdg-desktop-portal-kde.cpp:27

I’m using the oldest architecture (340) closed source nvidia driver. That is the only driver that can work with my display card (nouveau can’t). That is probably a factor in this problem.

Do you know what this failure indicates?

I haven’t yet read about xdg-desktop-portal and don’t know where it fits in. I’m using sddm and kde and x11 (wayland crashes this system because of that old display card and I dislike gnome).

Any suggestions about steps for further diagnoses would be appreciated.

I got a reply to this issue while it was still an off-topic drift in my earlier thread:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/crash-in-sddm-greeter/76480/9?u=john2fx
I think the bug discussed there has a good chance of being the bug I’m asking about in this thread. But I can’t follow that linked discussion well enough to gain any actual insight from it.

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Well, they are discussing a problem that does look very much like your error. The crash appears to occur on the same line of code (line 1254 of qguiapplication.cpp).

From your original post

From the bugzilla report

#5  QMessageLogger::fatal (this=this@entry=0x7ffc01bbb650, msg=msg@entry=0x7f0341d585a7 "%s")
    at global/qlogging.cpp:893
#6  0x00007f034196341b in init_platform (argv=<optimized out>, argc=<optimized out>, 
    platformThemeName=..., platformPluginPath=..., pluginNamesWithArguments=...)
    at kernel/qguiapplication.cpp:1254

In the bug report, a few code patches are discussed that should fix the problem. Among them, is this one which suggests that it is a timing issue.

+    // Qt internally may load the xdg portal system early on, prevent this, we do not have a functional session running.
+    qputenv("QT_NO_XDG_DESKTOP_PORTAL", "1");

In the end, the bug report indicates that the problem should be resolved in Fedora Linux 37.

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