2009/8/19 Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de>: > Hi guys, > > until now I've been quite a KDE4 hater, but I'm willing to give it a try from > time to time. So I installed 4.3 parallel to my beloved 3.5.10 and was quite > pleased with it. However, I have repeating crashes of my entire X. Mostly it > happens when I open Konsole, the next often occasion is opening a menu (main > menu, context menu, you name it), but also only after a Konsole windows was > opened. All I see is a quick error message about glibc, then X restarts and > I'm back at kdm. > > I use a laptop with a Geforce 7600 GPU, running on nvidia-drivers-180.60. > First I had 4.3.0 installed from main portage tree, but I had a faint > hope they would have fixed it by now, so I installed the live slot from > kde-testing. I already had this issue with older version. > > Could anyone shed some light on this, please? One thing I can think of is to > disable 3D effects, but they're working quite well and it's the same with > *cough* Vista - they are the main reason for switching over from a previous > version. > > TIA > -- > Gruß | Greetings | Qapla' > What do you call a dead bee? - A was. >
I've had this issue today with a new KDE 4.3.1 installation (actually not so new, it was running fine for 4 days). I decided to track down what was probably causing this issue since it apparently to came from nowhere. Well, after testing some configurations I realized that changing fonts size (specially menu's font) could lead to this problem, but reverting the size didn't solved. Them I started changing xorg.conf and found an workaround: disable BackingStore. I've tested several times and the crash never happened with BackingStore off. And I actually turned it on yesterday, so at least on my system that's the cause of the crash. So if you are experiencing this and have BackingStore on, disable it. If you don't have BackingStore enable try changing some other configuration in xorg.conf, it may help.
