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From: Paige Thompson <erratic@××××××××××.sx>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde / xbmc (kwin_x11 crashes when xbmc is started)
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2014 23:47:20
Message-Id: 54790915.4030503@yourstruly.sx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] kde / xbmc (kwin_x11 crashes when xbmc is started) by Paige Thompson
1 On 11/28/14 23:18, Paige Thompson wrote:
2 > On 11/28/14 23:01, Paige Thompson wrote:
3 >> Hi,
4 >>
5 >> I don't expect to get any actual support for this just wondering if
6 >> there's some trivial reason I'm overlooking as to why kde_x11 (plasma5 /
7 >> kde overlay) crashes when starting xbmc-9999. I thought it might be
8 >> because xbmc was starting in full screen mode but I changed that and it
9 >> still crashes. kde_x11 exits with a segfault each time even after xbmc
10 >> is closed. I have to restart from xdm before it will run again.
11 >>
12 >> Thanks,
13 >>
14 >> -Paige
15 >>
16 >>
17 >>
18 > Just wanted to add, I switched to xfce and can start it without any
19 > problems (in fullscreen and windowed.) So it must have something to do
20 > with my kwin_x11 build I'll try updating kwin and see what I can find
21 > out. Again just curious if anyone had any opinions can't really expect
22 > support :)
23 >
24 Miraculously I am not the only person who has had this problem:
25
26 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337626
27
28 The odds of this being reported as a bug seem slim but sure enough it
29 has been.