Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Thursday 20 August 2009 21:19:02 Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman:
> > On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Frank Steinmetzger<Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a
> > > try from time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10
> > > and was quite pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my
> > > entire X. Mostly it happens when I open Konsole, the next often
> > > occasion is opening a menu (main menu, context menu, you name it), but
> > > also only after a Konsole windows was opened. All I see is a quick
> > > error message about glibc, then X restarts and I'm back at kdm.
> >
> > I had Konsole-related crashes and other weirdness when I first
> > switched to KDE4. It turned out to be related to fonts! I installed
> > DejaVu fonts and used them for everything in KDE's font config, and in
> > Konsole I'm using "Fixed [ETL]" size 10 (I'm not sure which package
> > that came from, but I think it's one of the core Xorg fonts).
>
> I, too, changed the font to a bitmap variant (terminus). But that didn't
> help; though crashes occured less, if my memory serves me correctly, they
> were still there.

I get occasional crashes with various odd KDE4 apps, like:

Moving two bookmark folders around in Edit BookMarks is certain to crash.
kmail crashes while doing deleting several mails on IMAP folders in quick 
succession.
Kopete crashed regularly today while shuffling contacts around.

I agree that emerge -e world is sure to sort it out but we won't find out the 
actual cure. We have three guys at least with this problem, so I suggest a 
trick:

List the likely problematic packages (kdelibs, Qt, glibc, font stuff).
Split the list up.
When one of us hits a fix, the others can test it.
With luck...

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