[solved] Konqueror 4.4.4 opens new windows repeatedly

[Jimini]

Hey there.
Since I few days, Konqueror (4.4.4) goes crazy when I want to open any place on my filesystem with it. For example when I open the trashcan-widget in my taskbar, Konqueror does not stop opening new windows. Only when I close them all by hitting alt+f4 fast enough, the whole thing stops. If I open Konqueror by typing "konqueror /home/jimini" (or something similar) in a terminal, the same error occurs.

Using Konqueror out of K-Menu (as a browser) works fine. Two or three days ago, I updated a huge number of KDE-related packages on two systems here, so I can reproduce this error on both machines.

Has anyone else experienced this problem? Or does anyone know a workaround for this annoying error?

Best regards,
Jimini
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[rndusr]

It might be some settings in your ~/.kde4 folder. Try adding a sandbox user, and see if he has the same problems. If yes, then it is some global issue. If no, then we must look into the settings.
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[Jimini]

Thanks for your hint, unfortunately it didn't make any difference. I added a user "test", looged in, and the error occured here, too.

Best regards,
Jimini
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[rndusr]

Strange indeed. But now at least we know that it is not you user settings that are broken.

My next guess is that it might have something to do with kioslaves (as it handles different protocols). If you have not already done so, you could try remerging kdebase-kioslaves, kdelibs and konqueror and see if that helps.

I'm fumbling blindly here, so don't expect any miracles.
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[Jimini]

I have re-emerged the three packets, but without success.

Best regards,
Jimini
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[rndusr]

You wrote that starting in browser mode works. If you start in browser mode, does it freak out when you go to ~ for instance?

What happens if you start in browser mode, then select [Settings]->[Load View Profile]->[filemanagement]?

If you can get to your home folder without konqueror bailing out, you can try to save the view profile (also under settings). This will probably not help, since it was probably not your user settings that were wrong, but you could try.
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[Jimini]

Selecting ~ brings me to this error.
Selecting "filemanagement" brings that error, too.

Best regards,
Jimini

Edit: I forgot to translate the error:
"Seems like a misconfiguration. You have linked Konqueror with inode/directory, but the program cannot process this filetype."
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[rndusr]

I found this
http://docs.kde.org/stable/en/kdebase-runtime/faq/filemanager.html#id2532309

You can also try rebuilding your mime-types, if the above does not help.

[Jimini]

The link looks good, but unfortunately, I cannot choose "Icon View", because it is not in the list of available programs. Is this problem related with this bug?

Although I re-emerged mime-types-8, kmimetypefinde-4.4.4 and shared-mime-info-0.71, the problem still exists.

Best regards,
Jimini
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[rndusr]

Do you have dolphin installed? Otherwise, it might just be that bug you found. I have no more ideas right now, so I'll leave and wish you a good hunting.
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[Jimini]

I emerged dolphin and now Konqueror works fine. But I still don't really get it.
Thank you for your help!

Best regards,
Jimini
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