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Hazuki

Member

From: Madison, WI

Registered: 2008-01-09

Posts: 13

KDE 4.2 Crashes

KDE 4, whether installed from the repos or using KDEmod, is unusable for me. KWin instantly crashes on startup, and while I can use Alt+F2 to bring up a run box, I can't do anything restore the desktop; it's just a black background no matter what I try. Xorg.log leaves no clues. What's going on?

mutlu_inek

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From: all over the place

Registered: 2006-11-18

Posts: 683

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

Have you tried renaming you ~/.kde4 so that it gets created afresh?

Hazuki

Member

From: Madison, WI

Registered: 2008-01-09

Posts: 13

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

Yes, I made sure to delete ~/.kde* before trying. Same result as always.

Renophaston

Member

Registered: 2008-05-15

Posts: 3

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

KWin would crash on startup when I first tried 4.2; I removed the line:

Option          "BackingStore" "True"

from my xorg.conf and now KWin only crashes ~once a day or so.

I don't know if this is the same problem, but it's worth a try.

Hazuki

Member

From: Madison, WI

Registered: 2008-01-09

Posts: 13

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

KWin would crash on startup when I first tried 4.2; I removed the line:

Option          "BackingStore" "True"

from my xorg.conf and now KWin only crashes ~once a day or so.

I don't know if this is the same problem, but it's worth a try.

Oddly, this worked. I would never in a million years have guessed that was causing problems. KDE 4.2 is very pretty Thank you!

Komuso

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Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 4

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

Well, well, I'm glad for you both but I didn't had that chance: Didn't had that line on my xorg.conf but I do have the same problem with KDE4.2. Anyway, I removed it from my install; my 8 GB hard drive is a bit tight...

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JooBlixlarz

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Registered: 2008-12-01

Posts: 23

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

Instead of removing it, try setting it to "False" - Komuso, try adding it to your xorg.conf.

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Komuso

Member

Registered: 2009-02-28

Posts: 4

Re: KDE 4.2 Crashes

Hi all,

Your problem was not mine. By digging in the logfiles, I realised that the following setup in /etc/fstab where causing the problem:

none                   /var/log      tmpfs     defaults,size=10M   0      0
none                   /var/tmp      tmpfs     defaults,size=70M   0      0
none                   /var/tmp      tmpfs     defaults,size=20M   0      0

Comenting them out solved my problem.

Hope this help,

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