ghostwriter seg faulting on KDE/Fedora 40...

[linuxguy123]

I installed Ghostwriter on my KDE 6/ Fedora 40 machine. https://ghostwriter.kde.org/documentation/

When I first installed it, it crashed when I input the first char upon opening. Upon retrying it worked properly. After using it for a while it segfaulted. When I opened it again, it segfaulted when I input the first char. See the session below.

Any ideas on how to fix this ?

Is this the proper place to report a bug ?

TIA

$ ghostwriter
[     0.153 77471 ghostwriter ] INFO      Backup files will be stored in "/home/me/.local/share/ghostwriter/backups/"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

me@workstation1:~$ dnf list cmark
Last metadata expiration check: 0:51:22 ago on 2024-09-03T12:33:39 MDT.
Installed Packages
cmark.x86_64                                                                     0.30.3-5.fc40                                                                      @fedora
Available Packages
cmark.i686                                                                       0.30.3-5.fc40                                                                      fedora 
me@workstation1:~$ 
me@workstation1:~$ ghostwriter
[     0.238 81852 ghostwriter ] INFO      Backup files will be stored in "/home/me/.local/share/ghostwriter/backups/"
[     0.292 81852 ghostwriter ] INFO      Using pandoc version 3.1.3
[     0.292 81852 ghostwriter ] INFO      Using multimarkdown version 6.7.0
[     0.293 81852 ghostwriter ] INFO      Using cmark version 0.30.3
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
me@workstation1:~$ 
me@workstation1:~$ ghostwriter
[     0.152 84194 ghostwriter ] INFO      Backup files will be stored in "/home/me/.local/share/ghostwriter/backups/"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
$ ghostwriter --disable-gpu
[     0.151 90489 ghostwriter ] INFO      Backup files will be stored in "/home/me/.local/share/ghostwriter/backups/"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Operating System: Fedora Linux 40
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.5.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.10.6-200.fc40.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 24 × AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12-Core Processor
Memory: 62.7 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070/PCIe/SSE2

[Oxyaxion]

Same for me core dump when application start on Endeavor OS / KDE.

ghostwriter version : 24.08.0-1

KDE / Plasma Version : 6.1.4
KDE Framework : 6.5.0
Qt : 6.7.0
Kernel : 6.10.7-arch1
Wayland

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sept. 04 10:54:08 scalitop systemd[1]: [email protected]: Consumed 1.867s CPU time, 422.3M memory peak.
sept. 04 10:54:08 scalitop systemd[1469]: [email protected]: Main process exited, code=dumped, status=11/SEGV
sept. 04 10:54:08 scalitop systemd[1469]: [email protected]: Failed with result 'core-dump'.
sept. 04 10:54:08 scalitop systemd[1469]: [email protected]: Consumed 1.947s CPU time, 149.1M memory peak.
sept. 04 10:54:11 scalitop systemd[1469]: Started Ghostwriter - Éditeur de langage « Markdown ».
sept. 04 10:54:11 scalitop ghostwriter[61106]: [     0.140 61106 ghostwriter ] INFO      Backup files will be stored in "/home/mathieu/.local/share/ghostwriter/backups/"
sept. 04 10:54:12 scalitop ghostwriter[61106]: [     0.183 61106 ghostwriter ] WARNING   Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/usr/bin/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
sept. 04 10:54:12 scalitop QtWebEngineProcess[61133]: Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/usr/lib/qt6/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
sept. 04 10:54:12 scalitop QtWebEngineProcess[61132]: Path override failed for key base::DIR_APP_DICTIONARIES and path '/usr/lib/qt6/qtwebengine_dictionaries'
sept. 04 10:54:12 scalitop ghostwriter[61106]: [     0.552 61106 ghostwriter  qt.qpa.wayland] WARNING   eglSwapBuffers failed with 0x300d, surface: 0x0
sept. 04 10:54:18 scalitop kwin_wayland[1501]: kwin_core: Cannot grant a token to KWin::ClientConnection(0x57f2ccc00740)
sept. 04 10:54:29 scalitop kernel: traps: Thread (pooled)[61232] general protection fault ip:634ce7b0e6d8 sp:79c9873ff100 error:0 in ghostwriter[4c6d8,634ce7ae9000+ae000]
sept. 04 10:54:29 scalitop systemd-coredump[61233]: Process 61106 (ghostwriter) of user 1000 terminated abnormally with signal 11/SEGV, processing...
sept. 04 10:54:29 scalitop systemd[1]: Started Process Core Dump (PID 61233/UID 0).
sept. 04 10:54:31 scalitop systemd-coredump[61234]: [🡕] Process 61106 (ghostwriter) of user 1000 dumped core.

[DeltaCopy]

What does your conf look like inside $HOME/.config/kde.org/ghostwriter.conf

Does it have this line lastUsedExporter=cmark-gfm under key [Preview]

I noticed that if this line isn't present then ghostwriter segfaults.

[linuxguy123]

This solved the problem. Thanks for the tip.