Killing a WPS Office Segfault the Ugly but Permanent Way

The actual bug WPS Office’s flatpak ships a background helper called wpscloudsvr that reliably segfaults … null-pointer deref inside libqingbangong.so, r15=0x0, the works. Not a config issue, not something I broke, just a genuinely broken binary shipped in the package. It doesn’t crash the whole app, just spams crash reports and burns CPU respawning itself. The fix nobody’s going to like, but it works You can’t easily patch a binary inside a flatpak sandbox, and there’s no config flag to just disable this one helper. So: bind-mount /dev/null directly over the broken executable. The file still “exists” as far as the OS is concerned, it just contains nothing … attempting to execute it does nothing, silently, forever. ...

July 18, 2026 · 3 min

Hard-Won Lessons Setting Up Samba + SFTP on a NAS

The idea was simple All I wanted was for my T620 to mount the QNAP shares, retire the QNAP as the “brain,” and have the T620 do everything … Samba, SFTP, the lot … while the QNAP just sat there as dumb storage in the background. Simple networking. I have never been more wrong about something taking one evening. Boot failure #1: the NFS ordering cycle First attempt, I set up NFS mounts from the QNAP onto the T620, then re-exported those same paths back out via NFS so other machines could reach them through the T620. Seemed logical … one machine, one point of access. ...

July 18, 2026 · 6 min