Created attachment 70037 [details] plasma desktop kde crash Actually this was the notice I received when I got up in the morning, my desktop was running in the evening. So, I am submitting it.
Pasting the backtrace inline for better searching Application: plasma-desktop (0.4) KDE Platform Version: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) Qt Version: 4.7.3 Operating System: Linux 2.6.38.8-pclos1.bfs i686 Distribution: "PCLinuxOS" -- Information about the crash: <In detail, tell us what you were doing when the application crashed.> -- Backtrace: Application: Plasma Desktop Shell (plasma-desktop), signal: Segmentation fault Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/share/gdb/auto-load/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.2800.6-gdb.py", line 9, in <module> from gobject import register File "/usr/share/glib-2.0/gdb/gobject.py", line 3, in <module> import gdb.backtrace ImportError: No module named backtrace [KCrash Handler] #7 0x468dc205 in QImageData::~QImageData() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #8 0x468dc339 in QImage::~QImage() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #9 0x4690c8e0 in QRasterPixmapData::~QRasterPixmapData() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #10 0x4690c932 in QRasterPixmapData::~QRasterPixmapData() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #11 0x468fb0b6 in QPixmap::~QPixmap() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #12 0x468ff5ca in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #13 0x468ff622 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #14 0x4690200f in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #15 0x468ff7f9 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #16 0x468ff968 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #17 0x43690054 in QObject::event(QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #18 0x4680fe44 in QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #19 0x46814df7 in QApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #20 0x4420e881 in KApplication::notify(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libkdeui.so.5 #21 0x4367a84e in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal(QObject*, QEvent*) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #22 0x436abd9b in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #23 0x436a8a32 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #24 0x43c27369 in g_main_context_dispatch () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #25 0x43c27b70 in ?? () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #26 0x43c27e2a in g_main_context_iteration () from /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 #27 0x436a918b in QEventDispatcherGlib::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #28 0x468c694a in ?? () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #29 0x43679a5d in QEventLoop::processEvents(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #30 0x43679cd9 in QEventLoop::exec(QFlags<QEventLoop::ProcessEventsFlag>) () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #31 0x4367e7e0 in QCoreApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4 #32 0x4680dbc4 in QApplication::exec() () from /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4 #33 0x45c06e3b in kdemain () from /usr/lib/libkdeinit4_plasma-desktop.so #34 0x080487bb in _start () Report to https://bugs.kde.org
Hard to tell for sure, but looks like bug 286829. If this can be triggered with a recent version of KDE (4.8.4 or later) and Qt (4.8.x or later), please report a full backtrace, preferably including debug symbols. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 286829 ***