Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.8) Installed from: Fedora RPMs When I try to logon to my machine, kdm crashes and I get dropped to a console. It happens around 95% of the time and I get no reason why it works then rather than the times it crashes. It has output 3 different error messages and I can't determine the difference between them. Here are the corresponding dmesg outputs: The first time it failed, I kept restarting X to try again: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input12 usb 3-2: usbfs: process 2641 (kdm) did not claim interface 0 before use kdm[2641]: segfault at 0000000041506480 rip 00000032d4a043bb rsp 00000000413fe190 error 6 input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input13 e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input14 kdm[3127]: segfault at 000000000d696914 rip 00000032d4a04381 rsp 0000000041400d90 error 4 input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input15 eth0: no IPv6 routers present e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input16 kdm[4731]: segfault at 000000000d696914 rip 00000032d4a04381 rsp 0000000041400d90 error 4 Another error: input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input14 usb 3-2: usbfs: process 2824 (kdm) did not claim interface 0 before use kdm[2824]: segfault at 0000000041507c60 rip 00000032d4a043bb rsp 00000000413fe190 error 6 input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input15 Another: input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input12 kdm[2691]: segfault at 000000370000010b rip 00000037af872bc9 rsp 00007fff21130310 error 6 input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input13 input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input14 input: Virtual ThinkFinger Keyboard as /class/input/input15 The ThinkFinger output may just be a coincidence in the last ones, but before that is the stuff from boot. I am not sure what exactly causes the error, so I don't know how to reproduce it consistently on a machine other than this one.
are you by any chance trying to use thinkfinger for authentication or is it "just running"?
Turning it off works. Thinkfinger is in my pam-auth file for authentication and it worked with gdm (why it was in there), but kdm does this. I imagine that it was "just running" when this happened. I have since uninstalled it and had no problems, so ThinkFinger integration with KDE does seem to be the problem. --MathStuf
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116682 ***
I disagree that this is a duplicate of 116682. That one is requesting an UI for already working fingerprint authentication. This one is reporting a crash. This crash is also reported in Kubuntu's bug tracker: https://bugs.launchpad.net/kdebase/+bug/216697
(In reply to comment #4) > I disagree that this is a duplicate of 116682. That one is requesting an UI > for already working fingerprint authentication. This one is reporting a crash. I agree with you and vote for unmarking this as a duplicate.