I've been using KiCad for a few years, but for whatever reason, didn't check for upgrades ^_^;; But, I love it!
Anyhow, I just repaired my laptop, and installed Ubuntu 10.04, and am using KDE 4.4. Now, pcbnew semi-randomly crashes X entirely -- kdm even has to restart. The only error I was able to log was: pcbnew: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. and /var/logs/syslog only has X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly This occurs on three different versions of pcbnew: *kicad-2010-05-05-BZR2356-stable-UBUNTU_9.10 *20090216-final (via Ubuntu repositories) *kicad-full-version-2008-08-25c-final (which is what is on my other system) Usually, the crash occurs while I'm manipulating the design; an empty file doesn't seem to crash. The crash occurs within 30 seconds of opening the file, typically, I only have to click the mouse-wheel three times (zoom) to reproduce it. But, I've also been able to do a bit of work before it happens (one time I was able to get a decent layout) Also, the crash doesn't seem to happen on Ubuntu 9.10 + KDE 4.3. Perhaps there's something in Lucid that's causing the problem? Any ideas as to what it might be, so I can track it down? I'm going to try compiling the latest version myself, just to see what happens. Thanks in advance, Nate
