Re: KDE restarts everytime I apply new system settings
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> From: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>
> To: Adriano Vilela Barbosa <adriano.vilela@yahoo.com>
> Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Wed, April 13, 2011 10:10:12 PM
> Subject: Re: KDE restarts everytime I apply new system settings
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> 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?
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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
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