KDE's Date & Time module (system calls it via kcmshell clock) causes the computer to freeze (even the power button doesn't work) and the screen fills with vertical black and white bars (usually, sometimes there are some colored bars, sometimes it's just white). It doesn't happen the moment I open it, but it inevitably does. Only happens when it is the focused application. If I go to another window, I'm safe until I bring it back to the fore. Opening the list box to select month or timezone seems to make it happen faster. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open KDE System Administration/Date & Time control panel 2. Wait Actual Results: Computer crashes hard. Portage 2.0.49-r15 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r8-22Oct3) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r8-22Oct3 i686 Pentium II (Deschutes) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.10 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=i686 -O1 -pipe -w" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=i686 -O1 -pipe -w" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt encode gif jpeg libg++ mad mikmod mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell xmms xv zlib directfb gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex svga java X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python imlib oggvorbis gtk opengl mozilla -3dnow bonobo gnome -alsa esd mmx -motif tcltk truetype cdr doc cups dvd fbcon foomaticdb qt pda samba xml2 kde mozsvg mozp3p mozxmlterm moznoirc moznomail moznocompose -scanner vim-with-x"
I left the module open for quite some time now and it didn't crash here. I am using KDE 3.2RC here, so it might have gone away since KDE 3.1.4. Can you describe your setup in more detail so we can see if there is anything special that might trigger this. Which KDE, which qt are you using? Is the machine crashing/hanging during other operations sometimes? Like big compile-jobs?
Sorry, meant to include the version. It was KDE 3.1.4 and Qt 3.2. Just upgraded KDE to 3.2, still crashes. I get seg faults fairly frequently running KDE apps, but other than that it never crashes. I'll be upgrading KDE to 3.2.1 soon, I'll post in the unlikely event that changes anything.
must be a local issue - cannot reproduce here at all.
closing per above comment.
