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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE memory leaks?
From:       Juerg Marti <tschortsch () gmx ! ch>
Date:       2001-07-11 4:42:41
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For me this sounds like power managment related. So try to recompile your 
kernel without APM and ACPI.

Juerg

On Tuesday 10 July 2001 19:55, Antonio Pagliaro wrote:
> Actually before writing to RH support (it's not a good support at all,
> I think) I thought it was a DIMM, so I removed the ram in the third
> socket after some check: in fact "playing" with my three ram modules
> (128, 128, 256) on the 3 sockets, I realized that maybe the third
> socket was faulty. So now that is empty and ram is decresead from
> 512 to 384.  Anyhow, after some usage I got a desktop freezing again.
> What really puzzles me is that this happened (and most of time
> it happens) when there's nothing happening. No-th-ing !!
> Just KDE, my usual blue screen, icons. No program running.
> And I am doing something else (eating, maybe :)) .
> I cannot remember of my box hanging up WHILE I am working
> on it. Only if I am not, screensaver or not (last time was without
> a screensaver)
>
> Maybe this is not KDE as suggested by RH, but what
> could it be? Thank you very much for your help!
>
> Antonio
>
> > This sounds like a hardware problem to me.  I have had several issues in
> > the past that were like this, and were remedied with some new ram.
> >
> > At 10:38 AM 07/10/2001 +0200, you wrote:
> > >I thought this was not KDE, but at Red Hat support
> > >so they told me. So here is the story:
> > >
> > >I was just doing nothing with my Red Hat 7.1 box, so the screensaver
> > >was on when I noticed the screen was frozen. Nor the keyboard
> > >neither the mouse worked. No combination of CTRL-ALT keys.
> > >Only choice left: reset. I did it.  When it booted again I got a
> > >
> > >Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
> > >In idle: not syncing.
> > >
> > >This time I had to unplug the computer. After 5 minutes I tried again.
> > >In many trials I got hundreds of errors. These:
> > >
> > >-After checking /root (passed), it stopped checking /home (failed)
> > >and trying to repair it with fsck gave no result (when the computer
> > >tried to reboot, it freezes again)
> > >
> > >-After checking both /root and /home (passed), it stopped at sshd
> > >saying: /etc/rc.d/rc line 117 951 segmentation fault  $i start
> > >
> > >-At the end of the startup, black screen and message:
> > >Id "x" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes (and waiting
> > >produces the same message again: I had to unplug)
> > >
> > >-Inside KDE, trying to open anything gave an error related to
> > >inode and in a few seconds X was disabled again for 5 minutes.
> > >
> > >Since somebody tells me the Oops is important, I noticed that
> > >when this appeared it was 0002. If this helps..
> > >
> > >After a couple of hours I tried and I was succesfull. Now it seems
> > >to be everything ok.
> > >
> > >Anyway, a desktop freezing happens every now and again and
> > >no ctrl-alt-anything combination works. Just reset.
> > >This is very dangerous, and even if so far the fsck was always ok,
> > >I feel my data are at high risk this way.
> > >
> > >At Red Hat support I got this suggestion:
> > > >Since you are using KDE, there has been a few bugs in terms of memory
> > > > hole that
> > > >have been fixed.  You can check them out and apply the updtes to your
> > > >machine
> > > >and we'll see if that could the problem.
> > > >
> > > >http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2001-059.html
> > >
> > >Is this really a KDE problem? I myself doubt...
> > >
> > >Thanks for any help, I am in trouble!!
> > >
> > >Antonio
> > >
> > >PS: My box:
> > >
> > >Linux Red Hat 7.1  (no updates)
> > >AMD Athlon 900 Mhz, 384 Mb DIMM, Kt7 RAID Motherboard
> > >
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