Re: KDE restarts everytime I apply new system settings
----- Original Message ----
> From: Adriano Vilela Barbosa <adriano.vilela@yahoo.com>
> To: Ritesh Raj Sarraf <rrs@researchut.com>
> Cc: debian-kde@lists.debian.org
> Sent: Thu, April 14, 2011 7:51:20 AM
> Subject: Re: KDE restarts everytime I apply new system settings
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> > 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?
> >
> > - --
> > Given the large number of mailing lists I follow, I request you to CC me
> > in replies for quicker response
>
> 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
>
Sorry for the rant in my previous email. However, I would like to know if anyone
has seen this, and hopefully find out what's going on. I can consistently
reproduce the problem under linux 2.6.38-3: every time I click the Apply button
somewhere in the System Settings window of KDE, X restarts, and every time I try
to log out of KDE, X is killed. I'm not sure where to submit a bug report
though.
Any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Thanks a lot,
Adriano
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