Thanks for the response, Karl. I'm not using the beta release of Lucid, though -- this was the official update they put out this month. KDE 4.4 has been quite stable, too. I haven't had any other issues with my hardware/software.
My laptop is also relatively old (circa 2005); prior versions of KiCad worked on it just fine, using Ubuntu. The hard drive died, and I replaced it. There is a bug report on launchpad, too: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kicad/+bug/557918?comments=all This does seem to be an ubuntu 10.04 specific problem. I wasn't sure if anyone here had run into it yet. --- In kicad-users@yahoogroups.com, Karl Schmidt <k...@...> wrote: > > cbnathanael wrote: > > 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) > > I'm running the same version on Debian Lenny - utterly stable. You might > want to use a stable > distribution for production work.. The other possibility is there is > something about your recently > repaired laptop - laptops are often running on the edge and valid software > can case them to crash if > it loads the hardware to the point of heating.. > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Karl Schmidt EMail k...@... > Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com > 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 > Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 > > The only valid market survey is a signed purchase order. -- Jay Last > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >
