Re: kde sound logoff crash workaround

["N_O_eedfre_S_P_A_M@arcor.de" <N_O_eedfre_S_P_A_M@arcor.de>]

Francisco Vera wrote:
> I responded to you in your previous report because I have the same problem.
>
> Now I changed my kernel from 2.4.27-1-k7 to 2.6.8-1-k7 (debian sid), this 
> apparently solved the problem.
>
> I also uninstalled kdm, now I run startx to enter kde. Using startx with my 
> previous kernel also crashed my system.
>
> Now I tried to play sounds (as you mentioned) NO sounds.
>
> We are not alone with this problem:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88401
>
> Regards,
>
> Francisco
Hi,
I have had the same problems. Like other people in this mailing list 
jasonrc@gomdoli.com 08/19/04 wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I recently installed kde 3.3 from sid and have had a couple of strange
> problems. I was wondering if anyone else has had similar issues.
>
> Biggest problem.
> Every time I logout of kde, my system completely locks up. I have tried
> launching KDE from gdm, or from just a console and had the same result.
> After confirming that I want to logout, the screen goes blank, but a
> mouse pointer is still visible, but unresponsive. The system does not
> respond to keyboard input such as ctrl-alt-F1, ctrl-alt-backspace or
> ctrl-alt-del. Furthermore, I cannot ssh to the box from another
> computer. The system must be rebooted to resolve the situation. 
>
> Occasionally, I can bypass this problem by using ctrl-alt-backspace to
> kill X rather than logging out, however, this does not seem to work
> every time.
>
> Another problem is that for some reason, this process ruins mozilla
> firefox's bookmarks.html file. Often, after reboot firefox no longer has
> any of the bookmarks that it once had, but sometimes it will have maybe
> 1/3 of them intact, with the others missing. This does not occur
> every time the system hangs, but in all cases, mozilla was not running
> when I tried to logout of the system.
>
> A similar problem seems to manifest in xmms. Sometimes after attempting
> to logout from KDE 3.3, xmms seems to have forgotten some or all of its
> preferences.
>
> Usually, when I have problems with sid, I just wait a few days, and a
> new package is available fixing the problem. I decided to join this list
> as I haven't been able to find reports of this problem or similar
> problems when searching the mailing list archives or on google.
>
> My system is an AMD Athlon XP system with 768 MB of ram, using the
> 2.4.26 kernel built from the source package. My installation of Gentoo
> on the same system does not seem to have the same problems, however, it
> is using the newer 2.6.7 kernel (I'm not sure it this is a kernel issue,
> but I thought it worth mentioning since the entire system locks up).
>
> Curious if these problems are isolated to myself or if others have seen
> similar problems.
>
> Thanks
>
> Jason

I have done two things (after many other trials):
At first I disabled the KDE sound system, then I replaced my personal 
/etc/kde3/kdm/kdmrc with the maintainers version from the package (after 
lockout, so it is not overwritten by KDE).
Then suddenly all my problems were gone. After this I re-enabled the 
sound KDE sound system and the problems were still away. So, at this 
point, I can not determine what was the real reason for this terrible 
lookout problem. But I think it has to do with the KDE sound system, 
because I did not have the problem at every lockout (Sound System Auto 
suspend was 4 seconds). May be sometimes the auto suspend time was reached ?

More information, which was not helpful for me can be found at:
http://mailman.linuxtag.org/pipermail/debian-knoppix/2003-September/003963.html

My File system is: reiserfs
My Sound card is: C-media CM8738
My Kernel is: 2.4.27 (copiled by my self)

I hope, my information is helpful

Felix


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