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List:       kde
Subject:    Re: KDE2 crashing hard on Solaris
From:       Adam Clark <bjrubble () dagobah ! com>
Date:       2001-02-23 22:25:48
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Well, that didn't work, but it did lead me to a solution, which was to
delete ~/.kde -- it reset all my settings, but it did boot.  Presumably
there was a single setting in that directory that was bad, but without the
other ttys or another box to ssh in from, each change took 10 minutes
to test out.  Grrr, Sun's not winning me over here...

Adam

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Darrell Esau wrote:

> Try deleting all of the stuff in /tmp referring to kde.
> 
> This has happened to me on my Sun machine as well; in general, the Sun build 
> is nowhere near as stable as the Linux build.
> 
> And.. no.. Sun machines don't have alternate ttys.  If it get's really bad, 
> you can use Stop-A to get to the boot prom, then 'sync' will sync the file 
> systems and reboot.
> 
> Nowhere near as graceful as Linux though  :)
> 
> d
> 
> 
> On Thursday 22 February 2001 13:51, Adam Clark wrote:
> > I've been running KDE 2.0.1 on solaris-2.6 for a few weeks with no major
> > problems until this morning.  This is my reconstruction:
> >
> > * I sit down.  KMail (set for auto POP3 pickup) shows a message saying
> > that POP3 is an invalid protocol (message is actually from klauncher or
> > something)
> >
> > * I try manually getting mail a couple of times, same message
> >
> > * I try to launch a new Konqueror window to look it up, window never
> > appears
> >
> > * At this point the system effectively stops responding.  Mouse movement,
> > but nothing else.  Even the panel clock animation has stopped.
> >
> > * I try everything I can think of, ending in Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc.  Even that
> > has no effect
> >
> > * 3-4 minutes later, on its own, the Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc kicks in, and the
> > system very slowly starts closing windows.
> >
> > * The system stops closing windows.  The window in the foreground is the
> > KMail login dialog.  I can dismiss it with 'Return' but otherwise can't
> > interact with it.  No more windows are closing, and Ctrl-Alt-BkSpc has no
> > further effect.  Every few minutes the KMail dialog reappears, with the
> > same behavior.
> >
> > * I ssh in from another machine (doesn't Sun have access to other ttys
> > like Ctrl-Alt-F? in Linux/BSD?) and kill various windows
> > manually.  This doesn't stop X, so I kill -9 XSun.  After some
> > visual chaos the system gets back to the Sun graphical login.
> >
> > * Subsequent attempts to start KDE fail -- the splash screen shows
> > momentarily, then disappears, and the system churns disk but otherwise
> > shows no activity, and doesn't respond to anything but killing XSun.  A
> > hard reset has no effect.
> >
> > My stderr when I start looks like this:
> >
> > kdeinit: Launched DCOPServer, pid = 425 result = 0
> > iceauth:  creating new authority file /home/adam/.ICEauthority
> > kdeinit: Launched KLauncher, pid = 430 result = 0
> > DCOP: register 'klauncher_frink_10002'
> > DCOP: register 'anonymous-430'
> > DCOP:  unregister 'anonymous-430'
> > kdeinit: Launched KDesktop, pid = 432 result = 0
> > DCOP: register 'kdesktop'
> > DCOP: register 'anonymous-432'
> > QBuffer::at: Index 132223 out of range
> > QBuffer::at: Index 136759 out of range
> > QBuffer::at: Index 140935 out of range
> > DCOP: register 'anonymous-423'
> > DCOP:  unregister 'anonymous-423'
> > DCOP: register 'ksplash'
> > DCOP:  unregister 'ksplash'
> > KCrash: crashing.... crashRecursionCounter = 2
> > KCrash: Application Name = kdesktop path = <unknown>
> >
> > That 'anonymous-432' looks suspicious, but I have no idea what it is.
> >
> > Please help --  I've resorted to using CDE!
> >
> > Thanks
> > Adam
> 
> -- 
> Darrell Esau
> Software Engineer, Sun Microsystems
> NetAdmin Development
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