Application: kwin (4.8.5 (4.8.5)) KDE Platform Version: 4.8.5 (4.8.5) Qt Version: 4.8.1 Operating System: Linux 3.2.0-35-generic-pae i686 Distribution: Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS -- Information about the crash: I checked out the activities. After I clicked on the Photo activity, nothing Plasma related responded anymore. I killed plasma-desktop from a terminal. Then, a message appeared that KWin crashed. -- Backtrace: Application: KWin (kwin), signal: Segmentation fault Using host libthread_db library "/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libthread_db.so.1". [Current thread is 1 (Thread 0xafdc2740 (LWP 1939))] Thread 3 (Thread 0xaada6b40 (LWP 1946)): #0 0xb77d2424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb7596e01 in select () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:82 #2 0xb5f8642a in qt_safe_select (nfds=28, fdread=0xaa4005ac, fdwrite=0xaa4007c0, fdexcept=0xaa4009d4, orig_timeout=0x0) at kernel/qcore_unix.cpp:83 #3 0xb5f8aa1b in QEventDispatcherUNIX::select (this=0xaa4004a8, nfds=28, readfds=0xaa4005ac, writefds=0xaa4007c0, exceptfds=0xaa4009d4, timeout=0x0) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:639 #4 0xb5f8bd2f in QEventDispatcherUNIXPrivate::doSelect (this=0xaa4004b8, flags=..., timeout=0x0) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:223 #5 0xb5f8c1f4 in QEventDispatcherUNIX::processEvents (this=0xaa4004a8, flags=...) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:926 #6 0xb5f5550d in QEventLoop::processEvents (this=0xaada6190, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:149 #7 0xb5f557a9 in QEventLoop::exec (this=0xaada6190, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:204 #8 0xb5e3e94c in QThread::exec (this=0x9e24350) at thread/qthread.cpp:501 #9 0xb5f32b5d in QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::run (this=0x9e24350) at io/qfilesystemwatcher_inotify.cpp:248 #10 0xb5e41de0 in QThreadPrivate::start (arg=0x9e24350) at thread/qthread_unix.cpp:298 #11 0xb6494101 in ?? () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 #12 0x5c8b0824 in ?? () #13 0xbab80424 in ?? () #14 0x65000000 in ?? () #15 0x001015ff in ?? () #16 0xd3890000 in ?? () #17 0xfff0013d in ?? () #18 0xc30173ff in ?? () #19 0x0fc442e8 in ?? () #20 0xafc18100 in ?? () Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) Thread 2 (Thread 0xaa3ffb40 (LWP 1947)): #0 0xb77d2424 in __kernel_vsyscall () #1 0xb2a2796b in pthread_cond_wait@@GLIBC_2.3.2 () at ../nptl/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/i386/i686/../i486/pthread_cond_wait.S:169 #2 0xb75ab6ec in __pthread_cond_wait (cond=0xb67ba890, mutex=0xb67ba878) at forward.c:139 #3 0xb66b6029 in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #4 0xb66b606f in ?? () from /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libQtScript.so.4 #5 0xb6494101 in ?? () from /usr/lib/nvidia-current/libGL.so.1 #6 0x5c8b0824 in ?? () #7 0xbab80424 in ?? () #8 0x65000000 in ?? () #9 0x001015ff in ?? () #10 0xd3890000 in ?? () #11 0xfff0013d in ?? () #12 0xc30173ff in ?? () #13 0x0fc442e8 in ?? () #14 0xafc18100 in ?? () Backtrace stopped: previous frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) Thread 1 (Thread 0xafdc2740 (LWP 1939)): [KCrash Handler] #7 QProcess::setProcessState (this=0xa9ba8e0, state=QProcess::NotRunning) at io/qprocess.cpp:1770 #8 0xb5ee3397 in QProcessPrivate::cleanup (this=0x9c61588) at io/qprocess.cpp:799 #9 0xb5eeb4d5 in QProcessPrivate::_q_processDied (this=0x9c61588) at io/qprocess.cpp:1058 #10 0xb5eeb5bb in qt_static_metacall (_a=0xbfb04f98, _id=13, _o=0x9fdd3f0, _c=<optimized out>) at .moc/release-shared/moc_qprocess.cpp:92 #11 QProcess::qt_static_metacall (_o=0x9fdd3f0, _c=QMetaObject::InvokeMetaMethod, _id=13, _a=0xbfb04f98) at .moc/release-shared/moc_qprocess.cpp:69 #12 0xb5f6d6b1 in QMetaObject::activate (sender=0xa5f1618, m=0xb60b4478, local_signal_index=0, argv=0xbfb04f98) at kernel/qobject.cpp:3547 #13 0xb5fc0455 in QSocketNotifier::activated (this=0xa5f1618, _t1=35) at .moc/release-shared/moc_qsocketnotifier.cpp:103 #14 0xb5f760df in QSocketNotifier::event (this=0xa5f1618, e=0xbfb05414) at kernel/qsocketnotifier.cpp:317 #15 0xb5440ed4 in notify_helper (e=0xbfb05414, receiver=0xa5f1618, this=0x9ab1840) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:4559 #16 QApplicationPrivate::notify_helper (this=0x9ab1840, receiver=0xa5f1618, e=0xbfb05414) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:4531 #17 0xb544630d in QApplication::notify (this=0xbfb05414, receiver=0xa5f1618, e=0xbfb05414) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:4288 #18 0xb7257e01 in KApplication::notify (this=0xbfb05828, receiver=0xa5f1618, event=0xbfb05414) at ../../kdeui/kernel/kapplication.cpp:311 #19 0xb76ca7ff in ?? () from /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kwin.so #20 0xb5f5697e in QCoreApplication::notifyInternal (this=0xbfb05828, receiver=0xa5f1618, event=0xbfb05414) at kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp:876 #21 0xb5f8adc3 in sendEvent (event=0xbfb05414, receiver=<optimized out>) at ../../include/QtCore/../../src/corelib/kernel/qcoreapplication.h:231 #22 QEventDispatcherUNIX::activateSocketNotifiers (this=0x9a1aea0) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:884 #23 0xb5f8be76 in QEventDispatcherUNIXPrivate::doSelect (this=0x9ab1a48, flags=..., timeout=0xbfb05574) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:309 #24 0xb5f8c1f4 in QEventDispatcherUNIX::processEvents (this=0x9a1aea0, flags=...) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_unix.cpp:926 #25 0xb54fab6e in QEventDispatcherX11::processEvents (this=0x9a1aea0, flags=...) at kernel/qeventdispatcher_x11.cpp:152 #26 0xb5f5550d in QEventLoop::processEvents (this=0xbfb05764, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:149 #27 0xb5f557a9 in QEventLoop::exec (this=0xbfb05764, flags=...) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:204 #28 0xb5f5aeba in QCoreApplication::exec () at kernel/qcoreapplication.cpp:1148 #29 0xb543ea74 in QApplication::exec () at kernel/qapplication.cpp:3820 #30 0xb76cd7c5 in kdemain () from /usr/lib/kde4/libkdeinit/libkdeinit4_kwin.so #31 0x0804850b in ?? () #32 0xb74c84d3 in __libc_start_main (main=0x80484f0, argc=3, ubp_av=0xbfb05ad4, init=0x80485e0 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x8048650 <__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0xb77e2280 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbfb05acc) at libc-start.c:226 #33 0x08048531 in _start () Possible duplicates by query: bug 315123, bug 306995, bug 302922, bug 301516, bug 300955. Reported using DrKonqi
you killed kwin. the kill helper subprocess to be more precise. 4.9 detaches it from the main process to protect you from yourself ;-) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 196350 ***