----- Original Message ---- > From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <[email protected]> > To: Adriano Vilela Barbosa <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 10:10:12 PM > Subject: Re: KDE restarts everytime I apply new system settings > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 04/14/2011 07:53 AM, Adriano Vilela Barbosa wrote: > > I'm having lots of problems with KDE 4.4 over the past few days. One of > > the
> > problems is that my desktop gets totally corrupted every time my screen >saver > > > kicks in. I think this is related to some regression in the radeon driver > > in > > > > kernel 2.6.38 though. The main problem I want to report in this email is >that > > > every time I go to System Settings, change something and then click the >Apply > > > button, KDE restarts. Just like that. Has anyone seen this? It's just >driving me > > > nuts. > > Is it a KDE restart or an X server restart? Can you confirm that? > > - -- > Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me > in replies for quicker response Well, good question. I don't know how to tell the difference for sure, but I have the impression it's an X restart, as I briefly see a black screen in the process. I looked at the files /var/log/Xorg.0.log /var/log/kmd.log just after the restart and noticed they have the same time stamps. Does this mean that X was restarted along with kdm? I then tried to log out of KDE and back on again to see if that would change the time stamp of the file /var/log/kmd.log, but not of the file /var/log/Xorg.0.log. When I do that, kdm is simply killed. I have to go to a virtual terminal and restart kdm to get X back. Since I'm having lots of other problems with kde right now which seem to be related with the radeon driver in recent versions of the linux kernel (2.6.37 and 2.6.38), I decided to reboot using an earlier version of the kernel (2.6.32, as shipped by Debian Stable). Under 2.6.32, I don't have any of these problems with kde. But before you say that this is simply the kernel's fault, I should say that kde was working just fine under 2.6.37 and even 2.6.38 up until two or three days ago. I run Debian Testing and noticed there was a bunch of Xorg upgrades three days ago (April 11th); a combination of those and the newer kernels seem to be the culprit. Ah man, this is completely driving me insane. I have used Linux and KDE for more than 12 years now, and this is the first time I really feel like dumping the whole thing in a trash can. I may need to go back to Debian Stable in order to get some work done. Adriano -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
