Version: (using KDE 4.3.4) Installed from: Debian testing/unstable Packages Not sure if this is useful (/var/log/messages) for debug, please tell me what -dbg packeges install (i have kdepim-dbg and some others). This crash completely freeze my debian box, thus i had to force the reboot halting the machine with a 5sec pressure of the power button. Jan 4 15:14:01 piccolino kernel: [ 7561.363772] udev: starting version 149 Jan 4 17:04:48 piccolino kernel: [14208.428247] akregator[10965]: segfault at 0 ip b793f868 sp bffd19e8 error 4 in libkdecore.so.5.3.0[b7858000+238000] Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.829841] *pdpt = 000000000046a001 *pde = 0000000000000000 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.829869] Modules linked in: nvidia(P) uinput sco bnep rfcomm l2cap acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_stats firewire_sbp2 loop usbhid hid btusb bluetooth uvcvideo videodev v4l1_compat ide_cd_mod cdrom snd_hda_codec_idt ide_pci_generic arc4 ecb snd_hda_intel iwl3945 snd_hda_codec iwlcore snd_hwdep mac80211 uhci_hcd snd_pcm sdhci_pci snd_timer dell_laptop firewire_ohci sdhci firewire_core rfkill i2c_i801 mmc_core ehci_hcd tg3 piix psmouse dcdbas ricoh_mmc usbcore wmi libphy snd i2c_core crc_itu_t soundcore serio_raw led_class ide_core processor cfg80211 snd_page_alloc ac button evdev battery ext3 jbd mbcache sha256_generic aes_i586 aes_generic cbc dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod crc_t10dif thermal fan thermal_sys ahci libata scsi_mod Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830031] Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830040] Pid: 2762, comm: firefox-bin Tainted: P (2.6.30-ppf #3) Vostro 1400 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830049] EIP: 0060:[<c012d84f>] EFLAGS: 00010006 CPU: 1 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830056] EIP is at free_uid+0x25/0x7a Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830062] EAX: 0004483f EBX: f7545400 ECX: 00000001 EDX: 00044840 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830069] ESI: 00000286 EDI: c655d6cc EBP: c655d6f4 ESP: e00e7e14 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830075] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0000 SS: 0068 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830092] c655d6c0 c655d6c0 c01af98b c65e49c0 c01afa07 40000010 c65511c0 f7451e20 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] ---[ end trace 06ae06df755a1c2f ]--- Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] Modules linked in: nvidia(P) uinput sco bnep rfcomm l2cap acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_stats firewire_sbp2 loop usbhid hid btusb bluetooth uvcvideo videodev v4l1_compat ide_cd_mod cdrom snd_hda_codec_idt ide_pci_generic arc4 ecb snd_hda_intel iwl3945 snd_hda_codec iwlcore snd_hwdep mac80211 uhci_hcd snd_pcm sdhci_pci snd_timer dell_laptop firewire_ohci sdhci firewire_core rfkill i2c_i801 mmc_core ehci_hcd tg3 piix psmouse dcdbas ricoh_mmc usbcore wmi libphy snd i2c_core crc_itu_t soundcore serio_raw led_class ide_core processor cfg80211 snd_page_alloc ac button evdev battery ext3 jbd mbcache sha256_generic aes_i586 aes_generic cbc dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod crc_t10dif thermal fan thermal_sys ahci libata scsi_mod Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] Pid: 2762, comm: firefox-bin Tainted: P D 2.6.30-ppf #3 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] Call Trace: Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0318794>] ? __schedule+0x93/0x771 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0125fa0>] ? vprintk+0x286/0x2bc Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0318e81>] ? schedule+0xf/0x2f Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c01280c8>] ? do_exit+0x9c/0x5da Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0318467>] ? printk+0xe/0x17 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0105622>] ? oops_end+0x8f/0x93 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0114dfa>] ? no_context+0x13a/0x143 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0114ef2>] ? __bad_area_nosemaphore+0xef/0xf7 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c031a3c2>] ? _spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x1f/0x29 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c012d222>] ? __mod_timer+0xcd/0xd6 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c02864e5>] ? sk_reset_timer+0xc/0x19 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c02bb1be>] ? tcp_event_new_data_sent+0x66/0x6b Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c02bda76>] ? tcp_write_xmit+0x851/0x874 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0115022>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x1f2 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0114f04>] ? bad_area_nosemaphore+0xa/0xc Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c031a725>] ? error_code+0x6d/0x74 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c018007b>] ? move_page_tables+0x5f/0x2d4 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c031007b>] ? quirk_msi_ht_cap+0x12/0x3b Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0115022>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x1f2 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c012d84f>] ? free_uid+0x25/0x7a Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c01af98b>] ? put_inotify_dev+0x22/0x2c Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c01afa07>] ? inotify_release+0x72/0x79 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c018e134>] ? __fput+0xa6/0x135 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c018b87e>] ? filp_close+0x4e/0x54 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0126b79>] ? put_files_struct+0x60/0xa6 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c01281ff>] ? do_exit+0x1d3/0x5da Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0128661>] ? do_group_exit+0x5b/0x82 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0130516>] ? get_signal_to_deliver+0x34d/0x363 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0101f9b>] ? do_notify_resume+0x64/0x557 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c01421ff>] ? do_futex+0x98/0x70f Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0135c02>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c017ab3b>] ? zap_page_range+0x66/0x6f Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c013c9d4>] ? getnstimeofday+0x4d/0xd0 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0198832>] ? sys_poll+0x44/0x8d Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0129169>] ? sys_gettimeofday+0x27/0x53 Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] [<c0102b02>] ? work_notifysig+0x13/0x19
Your system crash is unrelated to akregator. if you read what you added to your report, first: Jan 4 17:04:48 piccolino kernel: [14208.428247] akregator[10965]: segfault at 0 ip b793f868 sp bffd19e8 error 4 in libkdecore.so.5.3.0[b7858000+238000] ~ a kdelibs issue made akregator crash (could be an installation problem) However, the two kernel traces arrive after: Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] Modules linked in: nvidia(P) uinput sco bnep rfcomm l2cap acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_stats firewire_sbp2 loop usbhid hid btusb bluetooth uvcvideo videodev v4l1_compat ide_cd_mod cdrom snd_hda_codec_idt ide_pci_generic arc4 ecb snd_hda_intel iwl3945 snd_hda_codec iwlcore snd_hwdep mac80211 uhci_hcd snd_pcm sdhci_pci snd_timer dell_laptop firewire_ohci sdhci firewire_core rfkill i2c_i801 mmc_core ehci_hcd tg3 piix psmouse dcdbas ricoh_mmc usbcore wmi libphy snd i2c_core crc_itu_t soundcore serio_raw led_class ide_core processor cfg80211 snd_page_alloc ac button evdev battery ext3 jbd mbcache sha256_generic aes_i586 aes_generic cbc dm_crypt dm_mod sd_mod crc_t10dif thermal fan thermal_sys ahci libata scsi_mod are the kernel modules loaded, Jan 4 17:56:46 piccolino kernel: [17325.830258] Pid: 2762, comm: firefox-bin Tainted: P D 2.6.30-ppf #3 that caused the kernel issue. (Note that it doesn't mean firefox is responsible for your system crash, an hanging system is either a kernel issue or a failing hardware component)