https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358887
--- Comment #4 from Joseph Guida <joe85...@gmail.com> ---
Thank you much for the information about Bleachbit's causation of this
crash. I will cease using it. Your reply is very much appreciated.
Joe G
On Feb 19, 2016 9:39 PM, "Michael Pyne via KDE Bugzilla" <
bugzilla_nore...@kde.org> wrote:

> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=358887
>
> Michael Pyne <mp...@kde.org> changed:
>
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>              Status|NEEDSINFO                   |RESOLVED
>          Resolution|BACKTRACE                   |INVALID
>
> --- Comment #3 from Michael Pyne <mp...@kde.org> ---
> Bleachbit overwrites the cache instead of simply unlinking it, which is
> what
> causes the crash. There's not much I can do here because the cache is
> persistent so it must save its accounting data within the file itself,
> which
> Bleachbit then corrupts, leading to crashes almost instantly.
>
> This type of bug has been reported before, my understanding was that the
> Bleachbit devs had configured the software to leave things like
> /var/tmp/kdecache* alone by default but I'm not sure (and I'm sure it's
> still
> possible for user to override). See Martin's blog post from nearly 4 years
> ago
> now to see how long this has been going on
> https://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2012/07/do-not-use-bleachbit/
>
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