Bug 177140 - xserver crashes on trying to change desktop appearance
Summary: xserver crashes on trying to change desktop appearance
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: plasma4
Classification: Plasma
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources Unspecified
: NOR crash
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2008-12-07 14:45 UTC by Frank Sagurna
Modified: 2008-12-07 17:04 UTC (History)
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xorg.log (21.30 KB, application/x-trash)
2008-12-07 14:46 UTC, Frank Sagurna 		Details
gdb, but not much info in it i think (1.58 KB, text/plain)
2008-12-07 14:47 UTC, Frank Sagurna 		Details
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Description Frank Sagurna 2008-12-07 14:45:36 UTC 
Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

xserver crashes often when trying to change plasma/plasmoids/desktop settings.
I had this on 4.1.x and now on 4.2beta1 (4.1.80).
Kubuntu 8.10, 64bit, nvidia driver 177.80 and 180.11beta

Steps to reproduce:
- right click on desktop
- appearance settings
- wait a few seconds (or click on design select box)
-> crash
Comment 1 Frank Sagurna 2008-12-07 14:46:24 UTC 
Created attachment 29121 [details]
xorg.log
Comment 2 Frank Sagurna 2008-12-07 14:47:47 UTC 
Created attachment 29122 [details]
gdb, but not much info in it i think
Comment 3 Frank Sagurna 2008-12-07 15:03:34 UTC 
I once reported a similar (maybe the same) bug on launchpad, i dont know why i got more gdb output on that day:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdelibs/+bug/290799
Comment 4 Jonathan Thomas 2008-12-07 16:16:08 UTC 
According to your Xorg.0.log your crash is in the X driver for your video card. (Plasma can't crash X directly, but it can expose bugs in the video drivers.)
Comment 5 Frank Sagurna 2008-12-07 17:04:12 UTC 
Just tested a bit further.
Disabling triplebuffer seems to solve the crash, so you seem to be right. Had that in my config since long time, as i read it should improve performance on nvidia cards (the old known issue, that should be gone now with actual drivers.)
But maybe that helps someone finding this bug report.