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Phate666

Member

Registered: 2009-02-06

Posts: 10

KDE5: "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly"

Hello,

I am often getting the following error when opening Dolphin: "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly". As a result I cannot see any files/directories.
This is affecting every application which is using the KDE file mechanism, e.g. chromium is unable to save files.
It happens maybe every 10th reboot and I have to way to reproduce it. Only way to fix it is to restart the computer.

If I start dolphin from command line it gives this error:

dolphin(8911)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::timeout: slave failed to connect to application pid= 8916  protocol= "file"
dolphin(8911)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::timeout: Houston, we lost our slave, pid= 8916
dolphin(8911)/kio (Slave) KIO::Slave::timeout: slave died pid =  8916

Did anyone encounter the same problem and knows a fix?

Lone_Wolf

Administrator

From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 15,557

Re: KDE5: "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly"

Next time it happens, plase check which appication has that pid .

Something like ps aux | grep the-pid-you-want-to-find should help with that.

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