Bug 259445

Summary:	X crashes in KDE 4.2 session
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Branan <branan>
Component:	[OLD] KDE	Assignee:	Gentoo KDE team <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST
Severity:	normal	CC:	andy.dalton
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	277868
Attachments:	X Backtrace emerge --info Correct backtrace Kernel configuration xorg.conf

Description Branan 2009-02-18 05:43:12 UTC

X crashes a few seconds to a couple of minutes into a KDE4.2 session, depending on what exactly I do. Just about anything can cause the crash. I have not been able to cause the crash from TWM, even while running a couple of different KDE apps (konqueror and konsole). The steps listed below are guaranteed to cause the crash, but they aren't the only way.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. right-click on desktop, choose "appearance settings"
2. left-click on the plasma theme drop-down

Actual Results:  
crash

Expected Results:  
get to change my plasma theme

I suspect this is a problem in my Xorg rather than in KDE, but it seems to only happen in my KDE session, so I'm filing it with KDE stuff.

Comment 1 Branan 2009-02-18 05:43:45 UTC

Created attachment 182393 [details]
X Backtrace

Comment 2 Branan 2009-02-18 05:46:32 UTC

Created attachment 182395 [details]
emerge --info

Comment 3 Branan 2009-02-28 21:01:43 UTC

Created attachment 183521 [details]
Correct  backtrace

The backtrace I sent in before was the one dumped to the console. This is a full backtrace generated by GDB.

Comment 4 Branan 2009-02-28 21:04:59 UTC

Created attachment 183522 [details]
Kernel configuration

My kernel configuration

Comment 5 Branan 2009-02-28 21:05:49 UTC

Created attachment 183523 [details]
xorg.conf

Comment 6 Branan 2009-02-28 21:07:05 UTC

I just tried updating to Xorg 7.4, as well as rolling back to the nvidia-177.82 driver. Neither of those fixed the crash.

There is no crash using the open-source nv driver.

Comment 7 Andy Dalton 2009-05-16 15:40:33 UTC

I've experienced the same behavior with other drop-down selection boxes (specifically, the one in the weather applet).  If I can provide any additional information that you might find useful, please let me know.

Comment 8 Alex Alexander (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-08-09 21:18:03 UTC

Does this still happen to you? I see you are using nvidia, could you try the latest available nvidia-drivers? Thanks :)