Bug#595483: kde: KDE4 Crashes system

[lrhorer <lrhorer@fletchergeek.com>]

Package: kde
Version: KDE4
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

KDE4 invariably crashes the system.  This system is running on an AMD Athlon 64
x 2 processer under Debian "Squeeze" and kernel 2.6.32-3-amd64.  The same
symptoms (only worse) are also observed on a Pentium IV system running
2.6.32-trunk-686.  One can log in via kdm  and bring up KDE4, but sooner or
later - usually within an hour or two, the system will crash hard.  One then
cannot reach the system via telnet, XDMCP, or from the console.  Often, it will
not even reply to pings.  The only option is to hit the power switch.  If no
KDE session is active, both machines are 100% stable, up continuously for
months at a time without issues.  If a KDE4 session is active, then after
between 30 minutes and 24 hours, the system will crash.  No activity is
required on the KDE session for the failure to occur, but it seems that
changing window foocus often triggers an event.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages kde depends on:
pn  kde-core                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeaccessibility              <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeaddons                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeadmin                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeartwork                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeedu                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdegames                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdegraphics                   <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdemultimedia                 <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdenetwork                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdepim                        <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdetoys                       <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdeutils                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  kdewebdev                     <none>     (no description available)

kde recommends no packages.

Versions of packages kde suggests:
pn  kde-i18n                      <none>     (no description available)
pn  x-window-system-core          <none>     (no description available)