Bug 650367

Summary:	KDE 4.5.2 update breaks mailto links in firefox, chromium-browser, konqueror
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Ville Skyttä <ville.skytta>
Component:	kdelibs	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	13	CC:	jreznik, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, rnovacek, ry, smparrish, than, thomasj
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Regression, Triaged
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	4.5.3-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-12-09 22:11:14 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	603202

Description Ville Skyttä 2010-11-05 23:09:59 UTC

After today's KDE 4.5.2 update (not sure which component is to blame), mailto links no longer worked in firefox or chromium-browser.  I use kmail for mail.

firefox did nothing (not even an error message) when clicking a mailto link.  I was able to fix it by installing gnome-control-center and setting the GNOME preferred mail client to kmail.  I'm fairly certain that those links used to work just fine before this update, but not completely sure as I use firefox quite rarely these days on this box.

I haven't been able to get mailto links working again in chromium-browser, and I use it a lot more than firefox so this is quite annoying.  It displays an error dialog when clicking such a link saying

| Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
| klauncher said: Error loading 'kmailservice %u'.

Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2010-11-17 14:33:53 UTC

Re: chromium:  hmm... kmailservice is part of kdelibs3 , not sure how/why that is being envoked here.

Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2010-11-17 22:47:07 UTC

FWIW,

$ rpm -qf /usr/libexec/kde4/kmailservice 
kdelibs-4.5.2-8.fc13.x86_64

$ rpm -q kdelibs3
package kdelibs3 is not installed

Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2010-11-17 22:53:16 UTC

BTW mailto links are also broken in konqueror just like they're in chromium, the error dialog boxes are exactly the same.

Comment 4 Ville Skyttä 2010-12-09 22:11:14 UTC

I can no longer reproduce this so I suppose it was fixed in 4.5.3-1.