Bug#595483: kde: KDE4 Crashes system
On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Leslie Rhorer <lrhorer@fletchergeek.com> wrote:
> A "normal" severity for a bug that causes the system to be
> completely unusable when the package is in use? That locks up the system
> like Fort Knox? That causes data loss if any files are still open? I'm
> hard pressed to think of a more severe problem.
It is a serious problem, but it is not related to the 'kde' package
where you reported it. The 'kde' package is a metapackage from lenny
and does not even exist in squeeze. The most likely cause of the bug
is the kernel, so this bug should eventually be reasigned there and
have its severity raised, however I cannot do that until the problem
has been fully identified.
> There are no proprietary gpu drivers, and please re-read the post.
> One of the systems is Intel. Both systems were upgraded from Debian "Lenny"
> with no problems whatsoever running KDE3. Neither has any problem running
> gnome. KDE4 was so unusable on the Pentium system I wiped the drive and
> installed fresh from the "Squeeze" installer. It didn't help. Both use the
> graphics processors embedded on the motherboard, with plain-vanilla Debian
> installations straight from the Debian install CD. The Pentium system is an
> old Dell Optiplex GX-1 system, which is about as Plain Jane Intel as it
> gets. The AMD is over a year old. All of the software on both machines -
> other than that I have written myself - is straight from the Debian
> repositories.
An intel system can have an amd graphics card, this is not uncommon. I
still believe the problem is in graphics drivers, though. Even if
these are the free intel or radeon drivers. Radeon drivers are known
to lock up if their non-free firmware is missing, perhaps you should
make sure to install firmware-linux-nonfree and I'm not sure about the
intel drivers (never had one of those). Anyway, the kernel upgrade may
help, since the -5- version of this kernel has all the graphics
drivers backported from 2.6.33.
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