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Bug 77623 - kicker crashes on startup
Summary: kicker crashes on startup
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: [OLD] KDE (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Sparc Porters
URL:
Whiteboard:
Keywords:
: 92126 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-01-11 20:37 UTC by Jason Wever (RETIRED)
Modified: 2005-08-03 07:19 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

See Also:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---


Attachments
strace of clock applet (thetest,194.63 KB, text/plain)
2005-03-23 11:23 UTC, Jordan Rubin
Details

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Description Jason Wever (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-01-11 20:37:32 UTC
This is a bug to track the issue in KDE 3.2.x and KDE 3.3.x where kicker will crash on startup on certain machines.  So far the best we've been able to tell is that it might be related to the clock applet, but so far we cannot get reliable backtraces to help diagnose the issue.  Note that this is hit and miss per system, but is fairly consistent on systems where it does fail, and happens on sparc or ~sparc boxes.
Comment 1 Prof. Jonathan King 2005-03-02 20:11:23 UTC
I post this to be helpful, but if it refers to a different
phenomenon, feel free to delete it.

Tonight I emerged

     Wed Mar  2 20:15:50 2005 >>> kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r4
     Wed Mar  2 20:17:11 2005 >>> media-gfx/xloadimage-4.1-r2
     Wed Mar  2 20:18:01 2005 >>> sys-fs/device-mapper-1.00.19-r2
     Wed Mar  2 20:20:52 2005 >>> media-libs/imlib2-1.2.0-r2
     Wed Mar  2 20:28:41 2005 >>> media-libs/libtheora-1.0_alpha3

and the problem I posted to the Forums

  http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2030612.html#2030612
  KDE kicker panel freezes after `Run Command'

seemed to have disappeared.  (I haven't run things long enough to
see if the random freezing has stopped.)  

Unmentioned there, but I had also noticed that running `alsaconf'
caused `kicker' to vanish (the process gone).  I suspect that
`alsaconf' killed the "Sound Mixer" that I had running in
`kicker', and somehow deep-sixed `kicker'.

In any case, this problem has vanished as well.
Comment 2 Laurens Vets 2005-03-22 22:09:25 UTC
Maybe usefull info:

My system: Sun Netra T1124 2 x 440 UltraSparc

-> emerged KDE 3.4: kicker crashes
-> changed from kernel 2.4 to 2.6: kicker still crashes

I've seen in the forums that other people who have this problem also run Sparc 64 SMP kernels...
Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-03-23 02:15:05 UTC
A useful tip for debugging is that you can run single kicker applets by doing e.g.:
# appletproxy /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/kicker/applets/clockapplet.desktop
Comment 4 Jordan Rubin 2005-03-23 03:17:24 UTC
Sparc Ultra 60 latest openprom.   Dual processor SMP
Sparc-sources 2.4.29
KDE 3.3 and KDE 3.4

Kicker crashes.


Same problem.  Konqueror also crashes (given attempt was logging into yahoomail)
Comment 5 Jordan Rubin 2005-03-23 03:45:42 UTC
I have tested every applet individually and they all work except for one..

The clock applet...  see snipplet>

bash-2.05b# appletproxy /usr/kde/3.4/share/apps/kicker/applets/clockapplet.desktop
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton): Creating KConfigSkeleton
(0x141cf0)
kdecore (KConfigSkeleton):
KConfigSkeleton::readConfig()
Bus error
bash-2.05b#   


Comment 6 Jordan Rubin 2005-03-23 11:23:34 UTC
Created attachment 54271 [details]
strace of clock applet

I hope this is what was needed, its pretty big
Comment 7 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-10 10:29:57 UTC
*** Bug 92126 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 8 tonythedford 2005-05-24 11:59:51 UTC
May help:

Kicker on my x86 machine randomly crashes while inside KDE 3.4. Even more often
it crashes on exit from KDE.

I have glibc 2.3.4.20041102-r1, kdebase 3.4.0-r1, kdelibs 3.4.0-r2, qt 3.3.4-r3,
gcc 3.3.5.20050130-r1, gentoo-sources kernel 2.6.11-r8 installed.

I have tried all mentioned suggestions in the forums with no success. Switching
out applets, etc in the panel sometimes appears to correct the problem but
eventually the panel crashes again.

There were no prior problems with my gentoo install until I installed KDE 3.4. I
was running Windowmaker before that with no problems.
Comment 9 Gen Toobug 2005-06-12 15:42:20 UTC
Kicker is consistently crashing on startup for me, and also whenever a webpage
has flash on it.  Anyone know if this is fixed in 3.4.1?

Comment 10 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-07-07 07:01:57 UTC
Checked in a workaround in the qt ebuilds.
Works for me and a couple of other people with kde 3.4.1 (soon to be stable).
Basically filters down CFLAGS/CXXFLAGS to just "-O1". There's probably some ugly
thing going on with g++ building bad code.
Please test and come back with feedback on this bug. Thanks.
Comment 11 Gustavo Zacarias (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-08-03 07:06:24 UTC
Ok, this is fixed.