bug: Dolphin freezes when home-manager is installed

[andersrh]

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• My Nixpkgs and Home Manager versions are in sync

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Issue description

When I install home-manager Dolphin freezes, when I go to my home folder.
When I uninstall home-manager the issue gets resolved.

I haven't been able to find others, who have exactly the same issue.

My nixpkgs is pointed to unstable and I have added the master branch for home-manager.

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System information

this path will be fetched (0.00 MiB download, 0.00 MiB unpacked):
  /nix/store/v8p3m2vgkcd3ykrdylm5vi9alrxbwhip-nix-info
copying path '/nix/store/v8p3m2vgkcd3ykrdylm5vi9alrxbwhip-nix-info' from 'https://cache.nixos.org'...
 - system: `"x86_64-linux"`
 - host os: `Linux 6.7.0-cb1.0.fc39.lto.x86_64, Fedora Linux, 39.20240120.0 (Kinoite), nobuild`
 - multi-user?: `yes`
 - sandbox: `yes`
 - version: `nix-env (Nix) 2.19.2`
 - channels(root): `"nixpkgs"`
 - nixpkgs: `/nix/var/nix/profiles/per-user/root/channels/nixpkgs`

[n-a-m-e]

Happens to me too. Running home-manager on Ubuntu.

I don't know why but any directory containing .js files crashes dolphin. If I open a Folder without any .js files it works just fine.
There may be other file extensions which also cause a crash but I haven't found any.

I also can't open the KDE editor "Kate" as it also instantly crashes.

I think it is probably something to do with KDE apps

I was previously able to fix it by changing changing from master and setting nixpkgs.url to "github:nixos/nixpkgs/nixos-23.11" and home-manager url to "github:nix-community/home-manager/release-23.11"

But after the last time I updated a couple of days ago the issue is back.

[yeus]

same issue here! Not sure whats causing it, but resetting dolphin to default settings helped:

rm -r .local/share/dolphin/ .config/session/dolphin_* .config/dolphinrc

[yeus]

some more investigation shows that kate always freezes when I call the open/close dialog... trying to reset that as well right now :)

EDIT:

after doing this:

rm -r .config/katerc .config/katesyntaxhighlightingrc .config/katemetainfos .config/katevirc

this also seems to work for now...

[yeus]

hm. now I have a similar problem to @n-a-m-e :

• dolphin freezes whenever I enter a directory with a json file.
• kate and other KDE programs freeze as well, as soon as any sort of interaction with files is initiated! like open/close or with gwneview implicitly loading pics in the background

also checkout this issue here:

• https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=477298

[mghesh-yseop]

I have the same issue. With home-manager, json files are not resolved (running xdg-mime query filetype foo.json hangs forever), but if I uninstall home-manager I get the expected answer application/json.

Interestingly, when I uninstall home-manager while the query is running, it eventually succeeds.

In my case, the hanging occurs in kmimetypefinder5.

After running sudo update-mime-database -V ~/.nix-profile/share/mime/, it works for now.
I'm not sure about my installation, maybe I'm missing something about XDG settings 🤷‍♂️

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[NoraCodes]

Why is this stale when the bug persists? I see the same thing, and for me, running sudo update-mime-database -V ~/.nix-profile/share/mime/ does not work.

As suggested in the KDE bug linked above, this is likely due to a cycle between JSON and JavaScript/ECMAScript MIME types.

[wbehrens-on-gh]

Experiencing a similar issue after enabling the targets.genericLinux.enable option on Debian 12. It completely destroys kde, the desktop process keeps dying, kioslave keeps dying, and I can't open dolphin without it freezing.