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

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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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 use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.
First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint
hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from
kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version.

Could anyone shed some light on this, please? One thing I can think of is to
disable 3D effects, but they're working quite well and it's the same with 
*cough* Vista - they are the main reason for switching over from a previous
version.

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

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/20/2009 02:34 AM, Frank Steinmetzger 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.

The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors and /var/log/Xorg.0.log 
files should contain the specific error messages.

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

[Keith Dart]

=== On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ===
> The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors
> and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error
> messages.

===

X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then.



-- Keith Dart

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart:
> === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ===
>
> > The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors
> > and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error
> > messages.
>
> ===
>
> X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then.

Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version, starting 
from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test login. Of 
course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor any Xorg*.log 
contains glibc.

~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a little.
I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much.
-- 
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Emacs is a great operating system, which only lacks a good editor.

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kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_konsole.so
kded: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15
kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
kded4: Fatal IO error: client killed

kglobalaccel(5653) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::unregisterKey: Unregistering key "Ctrl+F9" for "kwin" : "Expose"
[ 40 more of them ]
kglobalaccel(5653) GlobalShortcutsRegistry::unregisterKey: Unregistering key "Ctrl+Alt+V" for "klipper" : "show_klipper_popup"

kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
Unexpected response from KInit (response = -1207865328).
startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
KCrash cannot reach kdeinit, launching directly.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 15
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed)
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed)
drkonqi: cannot connect to X server :1.0
kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
kglobalaccel: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit4: sending SIGHUP to children.
ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed)
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed)
ProcessControl: Application '/usr/bin/nepomukservicestub' stopped unexpected (Process crashed)
NepomukServer(5707)/kdecore (KConfigSkeleton) KCoreConfigSkeleton::writeConfig:
kdeinit4: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit4: Exit.
~

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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Keith Dart:
> > === On Thu, 08/20, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: ===
> >
> > > The 'dmesg' command and the ~/.xsession-errors
> > > and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files should contain the specific error
> > > messages.
> >
> > ===
> >
> > X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then.
>
> Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version,
> starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first test
> login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor any
> Xorg*.log contains glibc.
>
> ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a
> little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much.


startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing...

check your permissions - and make a rebuild of glibc&co

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:

> > > X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then.
> >
> > Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version,
> > starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first
> > test login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg nor
> > any Xorg*.log contains glibc.
> >
> > ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a
> > little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much.
>
> startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
> KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing...
>
> check your permissions - and make a rebuild of glibc&co

Which permissions do you mean in particular? It's a fresh install with a newly 
created test user acount.

I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer, 
but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to 
cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon 
leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see what 
happens.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Paul Hartman]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzger<Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D layer,
> but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems to
> cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray icon
> leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see what
> happens.

That's exactly the kind of problems I was having, and went away when I
redefined all of the fonts in System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts.
I don't think it even matters which font you change it to, just that
you change it to something. IIRC it had generic font family like "Sans
Serif" instead of specific font names. FWIW. :)

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Paul Hartman:
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Frank Steinmetzger<Warp_7@gmx.de> wrote:
> > I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D
> > layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole
> > seems to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave
> > tray icon leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc
> > now, see what happens.
>
> That's exactly the kind of problems I was having, and went away when I
> redefined all of the fonts in System Settings -> Appearance -> Fonts.
> I don't think it even matters which font you change it to, just that
> you change it to something. IIRC it had generic font family like "Sans
> Serif" instead of specific font names. FWIW. :)

I've only changed font sizes, not the families. Besides, kdelibs contained a 
gentoo patch changing the default to Dejavu, so they're all set to Dejavu 
already. I've changed them to courier new, and I got a crash, this time with 
context menu of the KDE4 notification icon (i).

And lol - now I can't even open system settings anymore. Perhaps it's 
something with font rendering. Deleting .fonts.conf, I could open system 
settings again, but still I can't open a context menu without a crash.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Donnerstag 20 August 2009, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> > > > X errors might actually be in /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old by then.
> > >
> > > Sorry for not answering earlier, but I rebuilt another kde4 version,
> > > starting from a clean system backup. I'm finished now and had my first
> > > test login. Of course, the problem is still there, but neither dmesg
> > > nor any Xorg*.log contains glibc.
> > >
> > > ~/.xsession-errors however was a little more informative, but only a
> > > little. I've attached the relevant parts, but they don't tell much.
> >
> > startkde: Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation.
> > KCrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing...
> >
> > check your permissions - and make a rebuild of glibc&co
>
> Which permissions do you mean in particular? It's a fresh install with a
> newly created test user acount.
>
> I've disabled desktop effects, in case there was some clash with the 3D
> layer, but apparently it's (also) something else. Though now Konsole seems
> to cooperate, right-clicking on the context menu of the KPowersave tray
> icon leads to a crashing X with 100% certainty. I'm rebuild glibc now, see
> what happens.

permissions of /tmp /var/tmp and the kde stuff in /usr/share.

make sure that all of your system is build with the same compiler.

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

[Hung Dang]

Frank Steinmetzger 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 use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.
> First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint
> hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from
> kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version.
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this, please? One thing I can think of is to
> disable 3D effects, but they're working quite well and it's the same with 
> *cough* Vista - they are the main reason for switching over from a previous
> version.
>
> TIA
>   
I had a similar problem on my laptop last time but I do not remember if 
it is a glibc problem or not. And my problem had gone after I rebuild 
the whole system using emerge -aeNv world.

Hung

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

[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).

It probably has nothing to do with your problem but I figured I would
mention it just in case.

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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

[Alan McKinnon]

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...

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon:

> 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.

But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down as 
well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the short time 
I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago.
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[gentoo-user] Re: KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 08/21/2009 12:37 AM, Frank Steinmetzger wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>
>> 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.
>
> But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down as
> well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the short time
> I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago.

Stupid question, but did you run revdep-rebuild?

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag, 20. August 2009 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:

> > But there, only the app crashes, as I understand. Here it brings X down
> > as well. OTOH, I actually didn't have any application crashes in the
> > short time I tried it out in my previous install half a week ago.
>
> Stupid question, but did you run revdep-rebuild?

Of course. I did before I started installing kde4, and also now, which only 
revealed some missing links for kde3 apps, because I had to remove kde3's 
bluetooth packages.
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Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole

[Dudu Loschi]

2009/8/19 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>:
> 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 use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.
> First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint
> hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from
> kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version.
>
> Could anyone shed some light on this, please? One thing I can think of is to
> disable 3D effects, but they're working quite well and it's the same with
> *cough* Vista - they are the main reason for switching over from a previous
> version.
>
> TIA
> --
> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
> What do you call a dead bee? - A was.
>

I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
nowhere.
Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
the size didn't solved.
Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at
least on my system that's the cause of the crash.
So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it.
If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other
configuration in xorg.conf, it may help.

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

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:00:08 Dudu Loschi wrote:

> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
> nowhere.
> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
> the size didn't solved.
> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
> with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at
> least on my system that's the cause of the crash.
> So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it.
> If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other
> configuration in xorg.conf, it may help.

I agree with Dudu, nvidia-drivers is the likely culprit. There were huge 
problems in the early days of KDE-4, it's very possible that bugs are still 
lurking.

A useful site to trawl looking for similar problems and solutions:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14

It's a semi-official announce site for nVidia plus general Forum. The driver 
devs read the list and respond to major issues.

-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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

[Dudu Loschi]

2009/9/10 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 06:00:08 Dudu Loschi wrote:
>
>> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
>> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
>> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
>> nowhere.
>> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
>> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
>> the size didn't solved.
>> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
>> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
>> with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at
>> least on my system that's the cause of the crash.
>> So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it.
>> If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other
>> configuration in xorg.conf, it may help.
>
> I agree with Dudu, nvidia-drivers is the likely culprit. There were huge
> problems in the early days of KDE-4, it's very possible that bugs are still
> lurking.
>
> A useful site to trawl looking for similar problems and solutions:
>
> http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14
>
> It's a semi-official announce site for nVidia plus general Forum. The driver
> devs read the list and respond to major issues.
>
> --
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>
>

Thanks for the link Alan, it's very useful. Actually this bug has been
reported at that forum:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=partner-pub-6344472472167039%3Ayq78am-jukz&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=backingstore&sa=Search+Site

I was having a similar crash with gnome/metacity when I upgraded to
gnome 2.26 but I never tried to track down the bug, I just switched to
openbox, which didn't crash in gnome. But in KDE/Openbox the crash
happens, but less frequently than with KWin

2009/9/10 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@gmx.de>:
> Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi:
>
>> > 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 use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.
>
>> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
>> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
>> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
>> nowhere.
>> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
>> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
>> the size didn't solved.
>> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
>> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
>> with BackingStore off.
>
> A great many thanks to you, I've just tried it and it seems to have the effect
> you described. I'll dig into it further. But now of course I'm trapped
> between two worlds - stay with my sceen efficient and faster 3.5, or begin a
> liason with 4.3 for the benefits it provides, but also with its latent
> lagginess. *ponder ponder*
> --
> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
> Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids.
>

Great that it worked!
One thing to notice is that BackingStore is implemented by de X
server, not by the driver, So maybe this isn't a bug in nvidia-drivers
IMHO you should use KDE4 as now it's pretty stable (without
BackingStore, no issues at all here)

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag, 10. September 2009 schrieb Dudu Loschi:

> > 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 use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.

> I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually
> not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down
> what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from
> nowhere.
> Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts
> size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting
> the size didn't solved.
> Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable
> BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened
> with BackingStore off.

A great many thanks to you, I've just tried it and it seems to have the effect 
you described. I'll dig into it further. But now of course I'm trapped 
between two worlds - stay with my sceen efficient and faster 3.5, or begin a 
liason with 4.3 for the benefits it provides, but also with its latent 
lagginess. *ponder ponder*
-- 
Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
Kids in the back seat cause accidents. Accidents in the backseat cause kids.

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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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Am Donnerstag 20 August 2009 01:34:43 schrieb Frank Steinmetzger:
> 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 use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60.
> First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint
> hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from
> kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version.

Just for the archive: the problem was solved by disabling BackingStore for 
nvidia-drivers in xorg.conf. It's a common problem with nvidia, see 
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283331
-- 
Gruß | Greetings | Qapla'
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