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aviad

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Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 22

KDE crashes on startup

Hi!

For some reason kde refuses to work for me properly for more then two weeks without some new and exciting error\bug. So anyone who will help me will get my eternal gratitude! (for the next two weeks )
Right now after I log in through kdm\gdm, every part of kde starts up except for plasma. (as I much as I can notice) Kwin is up. strigi is up, and so on... but no desktop.

I tried to delete my ~/.kde4 - didn't help.

So, I opened up xterm and ran  ksmserver and basically somewhere along the way I got this -

kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/kmix
*** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/krunner: realloc(): invalid next size: 0xb390046
8 ***
======= Backtrace: =========
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e66ee4]
/lib/libc.so.6[0xb7e6aa61]
/lib/libc.so.6(realloc+0x110)[0xb7e6b6c0]
/usr/lib/libGL.so.1[0xb54b12c0]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QString7reallocEi+0x13f)[0xb72c284f]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QString6appendE5QChar+0x40)[0xb72c2cf0]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN7QString8vsprintfEPKcPc+0x133)[0xb72ca4c3]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z6qFatalPKcz+0x49)[0xb7273179]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QListData7reallocEi+0x76)[0xb72a05f6]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_ZN9QListData6appendEv+0x73)[0xb72a0823]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4[0xb7320c8b]
/usr/lib/libQtCore.so.4(_Z21qRegisterResourceDataiPKhS0_S0_+0x122)[0xb731c4c2]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4[0xb6e826ac]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4[0xb6e826d7]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4[0xb70475bd]
/usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4[0xb697da2c]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xb7fc8994]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xb7fc8ac4]
/lib/ld-linux.so.2[0xb7fba84f]
======= Memory map: ========
08048000-08049000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1073426    /usr/bin/krunner
08049000-0804a000 rwxp 00000000 08:11 1073426    /usr/bin/krunner
0888d000-088ae000 rwxp 0888d000 00:00 0          [heap]
b3900000-b3921000 rwxp b3900000 00:00 0 
b3921000-b3a00000 ---p b3921000 00:00 0 
b3a93000-b3c4d000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 211446     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
b3c4d000-b3c50000 rwxp b3c4d000 00:00 0 
b3c50000-b3d83000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1043385    /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.3
b3d83000-b3d88000 rwxp 00133000 08:11 1043385    /usr/lib/libxml2.so.2.7.3
b3d88000-b3d8a000 rwxp b3d88000 00:00 0 
b3d8a000-b3dc2000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1053953    /usr/lib/libstreams.so.0.6.4
b3dc2000-b3dc3000 rwxp 00037000 08:11 1053953    /usr/lib/libstreams.so.0.6.4
b3dc3000-b3de7000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 1043260    /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
b3de7000-b3de9000 rwxp 00023000 08:11 1043260    /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1.5.2
b3de9000-b3e19000 r-xp 00000000 08:11 162675     /lib/libpcre.so.0.0.1

Where do I go next?

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Someday, I'll be a real boy!

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: KDE crashes on startup

I had to reinstall my nvidia drivers & xorg-server (v 1.60 iirc) and delete my xorg.conf to get it to work, otherwise I had exactly the same error output you do.  My other option was using Vesa (which worked) but its not a pleasant experience.

quaqo

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Registered: 2004-11-11

Posts: 53

Re: KDE crashes on startup

I've had this problem too... After some investigation I narrowed it down to be a nVidia driver problem with their libGL that crashes plasma and krunner...

Temporary fix for me: remove nvidia and nvidia-utils, delete possible leftover /usr/lib/libGL* files and install libgl and xf86-video-nv driver. I also disabled kde's desktop effects.

Hope it helps.

aviad

Member

Registered: 2006-01-19

Posts: 22

Re: KDE crashes on startup

@quanqo - actually I found out my problem was beacuse somewhere along the way I installed the nvidia driver manually, and that left some unnecessery files. wiki helped me

So no need for nv or vesa. (at least in my case)

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Someday, I'll be a real boy!

quaqo

Member

Registered: 2004-11-11

Posts: 53

Re: KDE crashes on startup

@quanqo - actually I found out my problem was beacuse somewhere along the way I installed the nvidia driver manually, and that left some unnecessery files. wiki helped me

So no need for nv or vesa. (at least in my case)

Thanks. It worked. :-)