I tried to use transset on the battery icon in kicker. when I clicked, kde crashed and I got back to shell. pressing alt+f7 to see if kde was still alive, I get a "Init version 2.83 : restarting". now X won't start if LOAD "glx" is uncommented in /etx/X11/xorg.conf Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. open a shell and launch "transset" 2. click on the battery icon in kicker Actual Results: X crashed Expected Results: nothing =) gentoo 2005.0 ~amd64 updated....uhm....yesterday
If you're using glibc-2.3.5 with -nptl and nvidia-glx, this is a known bug with a fix already in portage. Can you please update nvidia-glx (assuming this is nvidia) and opengl-update? If not, what opengl implementation are you using? Can you update opengl-update? Please provide emerge --info
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 90047 ***