I'm getting a similar crash sometimes. This week it happened twice and it has happened in the past too... For me, the *user* dbus-daemon segfaults, making my kde4 desktop unusable (keyboard shortcuts stop working, communication with kded4, knotify4, klauncher, krunner and kio slaves is broken, I can't start new apps, etc...).
The error in dmesg is: dbus-daemon[18614]: segfault at 7f1173558720 ip 00007f1172416a92 sp 00007fff7afb60c8 error 4 in libc-2.7.so[7f117239c000+14a000] This is a very annoying bug. Each time it happens, I have to kill X by ctrl+alt+backspace (logout doesn't work, it requires dbus!) and then login in a vt and start killing the remaining kde processes that are not killed with Xorg for some reason. These are knotify4, kwrited, krunner, artsd and kmail, which requires SIGKILL instead of SIGTERM for some reason... Unfortunately I can't find any way to debug this. dbus-daemon doesn't seem to keep any logs and there is no standard way of reproducing, so that I can attach a gdb, crash it and get a backtrace. Even if I could, dbus-daemon comes packaged without debug symbols, so that makes it even harder... These bug reports seem related: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495894 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dbus/+bug/237527 _______________________________________________ Pkg-utopia-maintainers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-utopia-maintainers
