Summary: | x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-{180.60,190.18}: if BackingStore is enabled, KDE 4 crashes when opening (context) menus | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7> |
Component: | [OLD] KDE | Assignee: | Doug Goldstein (RETIRED) <cardoe> |
Status: | RESOLVED NEEDINFO | ||
Severity: | normal | CC: | jer, kde, reavertm, spock |
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | x86 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: |
Some system infos
xsession-errors Xorg backtrace |
Description
Frank Steinmetzger
2009-08-31 13:32:23 UTC
Created attachment 202798 [details]
Some system infos
Created attachment 202799 [details]
xsession-errors
tail of ~/.xsession-errors for a test session:
login, right-click on KPowersave and close it (did not crash).
Then open Konsole, open one of its main menus -> crash.
Created attachment 202801 [details]
Xorg backtrace
Just remerged xorg-server with splitdebug, because I saw a lonely backtrace message in Xorg.0.log.old last line. Now I get this backtrace from a crash.
I'm a newbie in gentoo, but you can try #revdep-rebuild. You can also test an another Desktop (fluxbox) to exclude that nvidia-driver and xorg have an error. (In reply to comment #4) > I'm a newbie in gentoo, but you can try #revdep-rebuild. That was one of the first things I did, of course. > You can also test an another Desktop (fluxbox) to exclude that nvidia-driver > and xorg have an error. I've never had any issues in my years with KDE 3. Today I got a reply on gentoo.user ML, he said to disable BackingStore in xorg.conf. Now the crashes seem to have gone fortunately. However, with that I wouldn't call the bug fixed, but merely circumvented. And you expect kde team to fix nvidia driver issues? @wranglers, plz add nvidia maintainers Sorry for my suggestive tone, of course not. But since it really only happened with KDE4, I thought maybe they did something wrong. ;-) I've stumbled upon nvnews.net, where this solution was already mentioned, so I figure NV people know about this already. (In reply to comment #7) > Sorry for my suggestive tone, of course not. But since it really only happened > with KDE4, I thought maybe they did something wrong. ;-) Think about it the other way around. Nvidia is the only one having issues. Read somewhere that setting: Option "BackingStore" "False" Under the Device section in xorg.conf (In reply to comment #9) > Read somewhere that setting: > Option "BackingStore" "False" > Under the Device section in xorg.conf > I wonder what I meant. Too much coffee and over-clickity fingers, probably. Anyway, nvidia bug. Assigning. BackingStore doesn't work with nvidia closed drivers for ages now. Enabling this option will cause crashes. It's know nvidia problem and they recommend disabling BackingStore. That should solve the problem (assuming you've got it enabled). I'm not sure there's anything nvidia maintainers can do about it. Hmm, how about placing in pkg_postinst some detection code that greps for Xorg backing store driver option and warning about it? Or just plain postinst ewarn/elong with no detection. (In reply to comment #12) > Hmm, how about placing in pkg_postinst some detection code that greps for Xorg > backing store driver option and warning about it? Or just plain postinst > ewarn/elong with no detection. Maciej, detection for user configured files doesn't seem the best option to me. An ewarn/elog should be enough, imho. huettel@pinacolada /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers $ grep -i backing * huettel@pinacolada /usr/portage/x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers $ Hmm any news on this one? Maybe we could just add the ewarn and be done with it? On the other hand, I'm running nvidia-drivers without this option right now, and I dont see a flood of duplicate bugs... All mentioned nvidia-drivers versions are not in the tree anymore. No message for more than a year. Resolving NEEDINFO for the kde team. Anyone who disagrees- please reopen... |