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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#38365: kicker disappears under heavy load
From:       John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-05 17:06:09
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On Monday 04 March 2002 11:14 pm, Alan Chandler wrote:
> On Sunday 03 Mar 2002 8:10 pm, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > You have some strange problems then. If you can reproduce the kcontrol
> > lockup, please do a "kill -6 <pid of kcontrol>" to get a proper
> > backtrace. Please do this for kicker as well when it disappears.
>
> Strange indeed.  I managed another "run" last night and this morning I
> first tried to run kcontrol and unhide kicker.  This time it did not lockup
> but allowed me to uncheck the autounhide button - but no kicker appeared.
>
> ps aux | grep kicker revealed that kicker was no longer there.
>
> What I did do was grep .xsession-errors looking for kicker - about 00:19 (I
> can tell because there are some kalarm entries surrounding it which gives
> the times) the two lines below appeared
>
> kicker: crashHandler called
> DCOP: unregister 'kicker'
>
> This is not long after the time I started the test and left it for the
> night. There was nothing more in the .xsession-errors log regarding this
> crash

If I'm to have any change of fixing this you will have to get a backtrace 
somehow. If kicker crashed, you should have gotten the crash manager dialog. 
If it is running and seems to be hung, do a "kill -6 <pid of kicker>" and you 
should again get the crash manager dialog.
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