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. ...