Summary: | plasma desktop crashes unexpectedly | ||
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Product: | [Plasma] plasma4 | Reporter: | TJ <one.timothy.jones> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | crash | CC: | andresbajotierra |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Unlisted Binaries | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
Attachments: |
Backtrace
Taskbar going bozo Double button Leftover button |
Description
TJ
2009-11-25 20:29:57 UTC
The crash is related to the taskbar widgets which had some "common" issues in the recent versions. A full backtrace would be useful... (also testing on KDE SC 4.3.3... as the situation should have improved a bit). Regards Dario, my man, please tell me how to turn on full backtrace. I dunno how long before 4.3.3 is markt stable in the portage, but I can do some backtraces for you on 4.3.1 if your interested The backtrace may be useful, too bad it is not 100% reproducible... Check this guide: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/backtraces.xml you need to setup the "nostrip" FEATURE and recompile kdebase/workspace with debug symbols Regards Dario, OK my brother, I have 2 packages in the portage: kde-base/libkworkspace and kde-base/plasma-workspace. I recompiled both with "nostrip" FEATURE and also added "-ggdb" to CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS. I will try to make it krash and letcha know how goes it. If those are not the right packages, holler at me. TJ Created attachment 38681 [details]
Backtrace
Backtrace of the first time the plasma desktop crashed and DrKonqi popped up. The Dr told me the backtrace was useful. I hope so too.
Dario, my computer went berserk this morning -- plasma started crashing non-stop! I thought I was running Winblows 95 or something ;) OK, here is what I was doing: I was in thunderbird. I copied (Ctrl+C) some text with foreign characters that got mangled. The text that I copied was: ц╝ц│ц■ц│ц▄ц≤ц▒ ц╜ц│ц▄ц┴ц▌ц▐ц≈ц⌠ц▀ц│ц▒ (yeah that's right -- a buncha gibberish -- it was supposed to be a name in russian letters -- I was gonna save it in different encodings and see if I can un-gibberish it) I pressed Alt-F2 and typed in kwrite, as soon as kwrite opened, the plasma crashed! DrKonqi poped up and helped me generate backtrace. It's attached in comment 5 above. Then I opened 2nd copy of kwrite the same way (Alt-F2, kwrite) -- beum, it crashed again! I started experimenting and did it a few more times. It did not always crash. I tried copying english characters and then the above characters, but did not see any relation. But it was not crashing consistently. Then one time after I opened 2nd copy of kwrite, the taskbar at the bottom went bozo. The app buttons got all squashed and it said I had 3 instances of kwrite open, when in fact it was only 2. (Screenshot called fubar.png will be attached below.) I did screen capture and opened kolourpaint. Beum -- the plasma crashed again! I saved the image (fubar.png) and closed kolourpaint. Opened it again and the plasma crashed again. I figured it wasn't the kwrite causing the plasma to crash, as it was now doing the same thing with kolourpaint. I opened up terminal and did pstree and captured it -- I dunno if it might be of any use. It's attached below. Next weird thing started happening. I only had 1 instance of konsole open, but there were 2 buttons for it in the taskbar. When you click either one, it brought up/minimized the same bash window. I captured that -- see below (extra_button.png). After I closed the konsole, one of the buttons went away and the other remained and there is no way of closing it. This is also captured (extra_button_left.png). I actually see this quite often and it might be a disrelated bug, but I am mentioning it just in case. OK my friend, hopefully this is some useful info. Please let me know what else I can do to help. D Created attachment 38683 [details]
Taskbar going bozo
App buttons are squashed and it says I have 3 instances of kwrite runnen, when it's only 2 actually runnen
Created attachment 38684 [details]
Double button
Taskbar shows 2 buttons for konsole, but only 1 instance is runnen and both buttons control the same instance
Created attachment 38685 [details]
Leftover button
After konsole was closed, one of the buttons went away and the other remained and I can't get rid of it. Have to log out and back in
Dario, KDE 4.3.3 was marked as stable in gentoo portage and I upgraded last night hoping it would fix my problem. I have not experienced crashes yet, but the extra buttons in taskbar are still there. For example, I opened firefox and it showed that I have 2 instances open, but I didn't. Clicking on either button would bring up/minimize the same window. Moreover, when I closed one of the Dolphin windows, it turned into 3rd firefox button on the taskbar!!! :) I closed firefox and I now I have 2 extra firefox buttons that don't do nothing and cannot be closed. Should I file a separate bug for this or should we continue here? TJ The crashes you were experiencing were bug 199325. The problems with the double buttons of unexistant tasks are being tracked at bug 202199. You can track both issues if you want. Merging this report with bug 199325 Thanks *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 199325 *** Thank you very much for the detailed explanations and files :) |