From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlapO-0001tQ-Pf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE51FE0AE7; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f199.google.com (mail-qy0-f199.google.com [209.85.221.199]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 90475E0A65 for ; Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:00:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk37 with SMTP id 37so4533701qyk.11 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:00:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=vYn65fd70iFhYyP6LxBDaGIJ9bK8kJ3h+3tKFO7s5xM=; b=VTLSgCKY4p2cMPqzME9Z68rhKF8HkmYhEz+ZhP80269lA9sefDrkGFmPbnvjjuiuZk SZmxxFyjavYa4ffC9aEPR9cxJKUMWS/BoQkI0vkNMxiu6+KiIX+FvEnbunnVLnEYjPwF 0fTizVmxWZkndU/PJLbepfGkVKKBfCGPDvaeY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IiUMMCNRx+0SjCNsHGt2ABYcPKTSbh8m9u/Gs3XOAAO+L+2fjhwOvBqtJgvICmxyo+ NrU4+lVCIws7Tq607uGsuavrjJXkWesboo8GickazaBbqVGhO1noWSg3p7VgtDse/pVE eWQFOpbAJz5HM5fTGhT63UR7nsao08akCaLZ8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.23.4 with SMTP id p4mr609994qcb.84.1252555208340; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:00:08 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200908200134.47229.Warp_7@gmx.de> References: <200908200134.47229.Warp_7@gmx.de> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 01:00:08 -0300 Message-ID: <2db88dea0909092100m328fdc35y1877b655bb1e6cbe@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] KDE4: Constant crashes in conjunction with Konsole From: Dudu Loschi To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 6b59fa9f-e7a1-4534-9774-b979d11af244 X-Archives-Hash: 2f3b6ad1881136ec40d8ea1c9c60e6d7 2009/8/19 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 qu= ite > 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 (m= ain > menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows w= as > opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts a= nd > 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 previo= us > version. > > TIA > -- > Gru=DF | 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.