Bug 727002

Summary: kio_magnet fails to launch magnet links with a "handler died unexpectedly" message
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Ryan Farmer <ryanfarmer>
Component: ktorrentAssignee: Roland Wolters <roland.wolters>
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 15CC: alekcejk, rdieter, roland.wolters, ry, smparrish
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Description Ryan Farmer 2011-07-31 23:57:21 UTC 
Description of problem:

When clicking a magnet link, an error pops up saying that the magnet handler has died unexpectedly.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

ktorrent-4.1.1-1.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

Click a magnet link and observe that instead of launching whatever is specified in magnet.protocol, an error pops up that says the magnet handler has died unexpectedly.
  
Actual results:

No magnet links work when launched from any application that respects the KDE defaults. Applications where the user can select a helper for magnets (such as Firefox or Opera) work normally, where applications such as Chrome, Chromium, Konqueror, Rekonq, etc. which use KDE's settings or call xdg-open will fail to launch the magnet URN.

Expected results:

Program specified in magnet.protocol should be launched.
Comment 1 Ryan Rix 2011-08-01 00:02:37 UTC 
What version of kdebase is this?
Comment 2 Ryan Farmer 2011-08-01 01:50:57 UTC 
kdebase-4.6.95-11.fc15.x86_64
Comment 3 Roland Wolters 2011-08-01 20:06:12 UTC 
Ryan, can you please check if that other magnet clients do work if they are configured to be launched for magnet links? I just want to make sure if the bug is actually against ktorrent or kdebase.
Comment 4 Roland Wolters 2011-12-29 11:35:58 UTC 
Ryan, can you please check if the problm persists with the newest kdebase?
Comment 5 Roland Wolters 2012-01-05 18:55:40 UTC 
Changed the severity to medium becuse the functionality itself (using magnet links) is still given.

But I repet: Ryan Farmer, please provide the above requested information.
Comment 6 Ryan Farmer 2012-03-26 07:26:37 UTC 
This problem is no longer an issue. Closing. (Although kio magnet does other irritating things and I question its usefulness, it seems to not have this particular issue anymore.)