Every time I press any multimedia key (play/pause, mute, next track, stop, etc...), all graphical user interface crashes, and the kde login manager appears again. I have a normal dell keyboard, nothing fancy. After upgrading to KDE4 all keys worked perfectly. I suspect that it stopped working after removing the device-mapper (device-mapper vs. udev block http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=284222). I've 'emerge -uDNav world' some times after that. Any idea what is happening? Do you know of any way I can get more info? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press any multimedia key Actual Results: All GUI crashes and KDE restarts Expected Results: The multimedia key does its function (mute, lower volume, etc..) and all applications continue alive. ================================================================= emerge --info ================================================================= Portage 2.1.6.13 (default/linux/amd64/10.0, gcc-4.3.4, glibc-2.10.1-r1, 2.6.31-gentoo-r6 x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.31-gentoo-r6-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_CPU_6600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13 Timestamp of tree: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 06:15:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.0_p35 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.9-r2 dev-lang/python: 2.6.4 dev-util/cmake: 2.6.4-r3 sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.6-r2 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.63-r1 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.18-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.2.6b virtual/os-headers: 2.6.27-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=nocona -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo ftp://mirror.scarlet-internet.nl/pub/gentoo" LANG="en_US" LC_ALL="en_US" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1" LINGUAS="en_GB nl en_US en es_CO es_ES" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/portage /usr/portage_emc /usr/portage_emc2" SYNC="rsync://gentoo.erasmusmc.nl/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi afs alsa amd64 bash-completion bcmath blas bmp boundschecking bzip2 crypt cups dbus doc dri emacs emacs-w3 examples exif fam fftw fortran ftp gcj gif gmp hal icc java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde lapack libaca midi mmx mng mpeg mule multilib ncurses nptl nptlonly ogg opengl pam pdf perl plotutils png ppds python qt qt3support qt4 readline sdl sharedmem sse sse2 ssl szip tcpd threads tiff unicode usb userlocales vtk xml2 xorg xpm zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse wacom evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en_GB nl en_US en es_CO es_ES" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Update: I re-emerged the x11-base/xorg-server and the x11-drivers/(linuxwacom nvidia-drivers xf86-input-evdev xf86-input-keyboard xf86-input-mouse xf86-input-synaptics). It did not help. One last thing: The keyboard is USB. Anyone any idea?
Anyone??
Please install another windowmanager (e.g. fvwm or twm) and test if X crashes there as well. If yes -> X problem If no -> KDE problem
Update: I upgraded xorg-server to 1.7.6 (masked for amd64) and it does not crash anymore. It seems to be related to 64bit + usb keyboard + xorg-server < 1.7.5 (tested on another machine). Solved by unseen forces...
