Re: iceweasel locking up under KDE, fine under Xfce

[Arthur Marsh <arthur.marsh@internode.on.net>]

Arthur Marsh wrote on 10/11/15 07:49:
> For the second time I'm seeing this bug:
>
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804060
>
> some upgrade in the last few days did it, my local Debian mirror wasn't
> updating and when I switched to an alternative had over 100 packages to
> update.
>
> The problem could be related to using a Radeon3200HD onboard graphics
> chip / vdpau.
>
> I'll try removing vdpau libraries and downgrading likely libraries and
> am open to other suggesitons to try to isolate the cause.
>
> The only error I get in dmesg is:
>
> [  308.499736] kactivitymanage[4194]: segfault at 7f7a85b35cd0 ip
> 000000302bc14291 sp 00007ffce281db78 error 4 in
> libQt5Sql.so.5.5.1[302bc00000+3f000]
> [ 1088.569088] kactivitymanage[4828]: segfault at 7fdfc616ecd0 ip
> 000000302bc14291 sp 00007fff3a3658d8 error 4 in
> libQt5Sql.so.5.5.1[302bc00000+3f000]
>
> Arthur.

I moved the r600 vdpau libraries out the way and restarted X and kdm and 
the problem did not occur, however I'd still like to pinpoint the cause.

Arthur.