From kde Mon Aug 17 13:35:20 2009 From: Dotan Cohen Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 13:35:20 +0000 To: kde Subject: Re: [kde] KDE 4.3 freezes too often now Message-Id: <880dece00908170635i41eaa06ei9f5f64ecf9c9f9dd () mail ! gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde&m=125051619423717 2009/8/17 Guido Pinkernell : > Hi list, > > it happens several times a day while using firefox or konqueror as an internet > browser, that KDE 4.3 freezes completely. It appears that a file download > still continues in the background, but the keyboard is dead, and the mouse > pointer still moves but does nothing else. There is no way to get the computer > back to work except doing a cold reboot. > > I have no idea why this happens. What I know is that this has not happened yet > with other apps than firefox or konqueror. And I can't repeat this behaviour > by, say, going back to that internet site on which KDE has collapsed last. > > So my two questions: > > Is there a way of logging all KDE activity into a file so that I would be able > to track down what happens? (I have checked with help and kde.org but can't > find any information.) > > I don't like cold reboot. Is there any other way of shutting down the system? > However, keyboard and mouse don't work, so I guess there isn't any. > > System info: > > openSUSE 11.1, KDE 4.3 release 155 > > Thank you for your help! > > Guido Can you Control-Alt-Backspace your way out of the X server? How about "Raising Elephants"?: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key#.22Raising_Elephants.22_mnemonic_device -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.