I have installed newest kde 3.2 beta2 and when pressing ctrl+esc key combination under mozilla or acroread (adobe acrobat reader). It opens hundreds of ksysguard processes and for minute or too system is completely halted (memory full..). Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start KDE 3.2 beta 2 session 2. Open Mozilla browser or Acrobat Reader 3. Press CTRL+ESC Actual Results: System goes slow and minute or so system is completely useless, have to press power button. Expected Results: Open the "ksysguard" program. Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 2.4.23-aa1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.23-aa1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.12 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -mfpmath=sse -msse -mmmx -m3dnow" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ ftp://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/ rsync://trumpetti.atm.tut.fi/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi apm avi berkdb cdr crypt cups dga dvd encode foomaticdb gd gdbm gif gtk gtk2 imap imlib java jpeg kde libg++ libwww lirc mad mbox mikmod mmx motif mozilla moznocompose moznoirc mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline samba scanner slang spell sse ssl tcltk tcpd tiff truetype usb wmf x86 xinerama xml2 xmms xv zlib"
Changed to ck-sources and now problem is gone, tested with 2.6.0-test11 kernel too and no problemo. Maybe it was aa-sources issue.
sounds like a kernel issue.