| Summary: | plasma crashes every couple of hours no matter what is going on, or even if nothing is going on | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] plasma4 | Reporter: | Wayne E. Nail <waynenail> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | crash | CC: | cfeck, claude.sadois |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Wayne E. Nail
2011-10-24 04:12:39 UTC
You are using a widget that leaks file descriptors. It could be related to a micro blogging widget. To identify which widget is responsible, please try removing them one after another and see if it fixes the crash. Thank you for your helpful suggestion to identify the cause of this crash. Plasma widgets that were installed (for years before this problem occurred, and never creating problems before this update): (1) Kate Session Applet; (2) Luna; (3) Picture Frame (on desktop, not in taskbar); (4) Trashcan; (5) Show Desktop; (6) Weather Forecast; (7) Pager; and (8) System Tray I removed Kate Session Applet first; no change. I removed Luna, Weather Forecast, and Trashcan next; no change. Finally I removed Show Desktop; no change. I'm not removing Pager or System Tray because they're active by default in the distro. I'm not removing Picture Frame because it isn't in the taskbar and at this point I don't have much reason to believe that any of these widgets are causing the problem in the first place. I reiterate that I have not added any widgets for many many months, and none of them have caused any problems in the past. I could not find a text log of the crashes -- by the way the 'view log' option in abrt gui apparently does nothing -- so I include this screenshot instead to show the cyclic and repeating nature of this crash. My original estimate of 'every couple of hours is wrong; obviously it is closer to three and half hours: https://imgur.com/DugME I am willing to provide much additional information (lspci, lshw, etc) if it may help, and I very much appreciate the response to the problem. I am not a coder, but my inexpert observations suggest to me that this bug is intrinsically related to bug 284830. A kind soul has commented that bug with links to the 'file descriptor leak' problem. Please see bug 284830 comment #9 for an update germane to this issue. Essentially an in situ upgrade from Fedora 14 to Fedora 15, and subsequent addition of rdeiter's fedora-kde47 repo and upgrade to KDE 4.7.x fixed both the plasma-desktop crash and konqueror filemanager vanishing problems. Given that Fedora 14 is about one day away from EOL and thus unlikely to receive the KDE upgrade required to fix the problems, I recommend this bug be marked closed. I posted the same recommendation for bug 284830. |