Bug 213970

Summary: KDE/X crashes kded4 Fatal IO error client killed
Product: [Unmaintained] ksmserver Reporter: Divan Santana <divan>
Component: generalAssignee: Lubos Lunak <l.lunak>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: crash CC: faure
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments: .xsession-errors

Description Divan Santana 2009-11-10 13:14:34 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE 4.3.3)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages

Hi,

Every now and then KDE/X simply crashes and restarts returning me to the KDM login screen.

# How to Reproduce
Unfortunately I can't reproduce this at will.
What happens is I am randomly working and I just see a flash, then TTY console and then KDM login screen.

# Expected Behaviour
KDE/X to never crash and lose all my work.

# More info
An associate at work also had this problem very frequent multiple times a day when he launched some apps like kopete and he seemed to fix it by starting a brand new .kde directory. That is not an option for me and most users unfortunately.

# Backtraces

See attached .xsession-errors file. I have to attach it as it was too large.

Let me know what I can do to give more valuable backtraces/useful and I will definitely do so. This is a very nasty and serious bug.
Comment 1 Divan Santana 2009-11-10 13:16:33 UTC 
Created attachment 38226 [details]
.xsession-errors

attachment of .xsession-errors just after crash happened.
Comment 2 Divan Santana 2009-11-10 13:18:59 UTC 
Sorry - just to add I've had this problem in kubuntu 9.04 and 9.10.
Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2009-11-10 16:46:18 UTC 
According to the log most probably your X crashed, in which case there is nothing KDE can do. You need to report your problem to X developers.