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2009/8/19 Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>: |
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> Hi guys, |
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> |
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> until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from |
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> time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite |
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> pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it |
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> happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is opening a menu (main |
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> menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows was |
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> opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts and |
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> I'm back at kdm. |
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> |
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> I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60. |
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> First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint |
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> hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from |
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> kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version. |
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> |
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> Could anyone shed some light on this, please? One thing I can think of is to |
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> disable 3D effects, but they're working quite well and it's the same with |
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> *cough* Vista - they are the main reason for switching over from a previous |
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> version. |
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> |
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> TIA |
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> -- |
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> Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' |
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> What do you call a dead bee? - A was. |
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> |
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I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually |
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not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down |
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what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from |
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nowhere. |
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Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts |
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size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting |
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the size didn't solved. |
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Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable |
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BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened |
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with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at |
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least on my system that's the cause of the crash. |
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So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it. |
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If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other |
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configuration in xorg.conf, it may help. |
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