Fedora :: Frequent X Crashes With KDE 4.3.x
Sep 12, 2009
Every since updating to kde 4.3, I have been experiencing frequent X crashes (1-2 times a day) whenever compositing is turned on (nvidia card). I was hoping that kde 4.3.1 would fix the issue for me, but no luck. So, I'd like to figure out what the nature of the problem is so that I can report it to the appropriate (ahem) authorities, but am not exactly sure how to dig up any useful information. The Xorg log didn't *seem* to have anything particularly informative to say about it (just a few lines about nvidia_drv.so).
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Mar 31, 2010
I experience X crashes on a frequent level. First it happened with the current stable nvidia 180 driver, and the nonfree flash player (....., vimeo, etc). I replaced the stable nvidia driver with the 180-dev driver which fixed the flash problem. However it still happens that the X chashes without any reason or pattern. One time it crashed the moment I wanted to save a PDF file to my HDD downloading it with Firefox, another time it crashed while idling. I use an Alienware M15x with a nvidia 260M. Compiz is installed and active. Which other data or logs do you need?
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Mar 19, 2010
I am experiencing frequent crashes for my browsers (FireFox, Opera, Konquerer). It doesn't seem to be related to the amount of tabs I have open, sometimes it will crash on 1 tab, and sometimes it is fine to have 20 tabs up. In addition to this, some flash videos hang after 3 secs.
PC spec:
OS: SuSE 11.2 (x86_64)
GUI : XFCE (KDE 4.0 back up)
Intel Q6600, 2GB Ram DDR2, 9800GX2
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Nov 26, 2010
I'm having, oddly enough, stability problems on my main slackware desktop. Whenever I try to do certain things, for instance going fullscreen on a flash video, starting regnum online or open arena, it drops out of X into the command line with a few error messages (next time it crashes I'll post the messages). On occasion, it'll do that without any input. Now, there's a few major changes I've had on the desktop since yesterday, chiefly that I've been able to connect it to the net for the first time in a few months. Now because of this, I've been installing plenty of software from slackbuilds, plus flash from adobe (necessary evil). I'm using xfce with some compositing on a geforce Ti 4200 AGP 8x 64Mb with nvidia drivers installed and dual monitors, each now set to 1280x1024 and in twinview, pentium 4 2.8Ghz, 1 GB ram. HDD has a 70GB ext3 slack partition, triple booting with 80GB ext4 ubuntu lucid partition and 40GB ext4 mint isadora.
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Jan 3, 2010
I am having a frequent (once every 3-4 minute) random momentary black screen and it recovers after 2-3 seconds. I have notice this since the early Fedora 12, but the frequency increases lately.I have turned off the KMS, KDE power management, and screen saver, but it did not help. I have radeon 3450.
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Jun 9, 2015
I run a Laptop (Mint 17.1), which is connected to a Debian 8.1 server over a LAN. The systems are connected through a router. Both of them show no problems when working independently and when doing work on the internet. Also, ping works fine (no lost packets, no delays!) from Debian to Mint. However when doing a ping from the Laptop (Mint) to the Debian server, I experience frequent packet losses and timeouts. In fact, a "first" ping may lose the first 20 to 30 "tries". Thereafter, if I repeat pings immediately and quickly one after the other, they might in geral not lose packages or show delays. Ping to and from the router also works perfectly in either direction!
Of course, functions such as ssh or samba-sharing are hampered as well by this behaviour. Also, if I DO in fact manage to connect to the Debian server via ssh, my console (KDE 14) is freuqently "locked" (i.e. - doesn't show my input for a while) but in the end DOES show the characters entered and gets processed o.k. (eg. when doing an "ls"-command). Both systems are at the latest software-level and I just finished installing Debian 8.1. The situation was the same on Debian Wheezy, however.
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Oct 7, 2010
openSUSE 11.3 KDE There is a frequent flicker on my screen. Some application OR notification just pops and disappears( giving an impression of a flicker ). How do i find out which application OR notification is it.
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May 31, 2010
In LMMS, pretty much any time where pressing a key or button is supposed to do something, it can crash. Regardless of what made it crash, it always dies in the exact same way: The window just disappears, and I get the line "Segmentation fault" in the console. Usually it crashes within 15 minutes of normal use. Not even 6 hours after I downloaded the program, I had given up trying to use it. Over the next week, a couple other programs crashed with segfaults.
Most of them only crashed once (among those was Firefox). So, of course, I'm now beginning to think that maybe the problem is not with LMMS, but rather with Ubuntu. I've had very little luck getting most of these programs to crash a second time, but I did find reliable ways to reproduce the crash in LMMS and Golly, so I got debug logs of those (with backtraces and steps I took to reproduce):
Code:
What I did to make LMMS Crash:
1. After starting LMMS, created an instrument track using the Oh Synth preset (under LB302)
2. Opened the tool window for the track.
3. Dragged my cursor back and forth across the keys on the virtual piano at the bottom of said window to play them.
4. Within 3 seconds, it crashed.
Starting program: /usr/bin/lmms
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0xb7d62b70 (LWP 4674)]
[New Thread 0xb2c18b70 (LWP 4677)]
[New Thread 0xb2417b70 (LWP 4678)]
[New Thread 0xb195ab70 (LWP 4680)]
[New Thread 0xb1159b70 (LWP 4681)] .....
Code:
What I Did to make Golly Crash:
1. After starting Golly, loaded the example file "Still-Lifes/eaters.rle".
2. Alternated between Space (Next Generation) and Ctrl+Z (Undo), holding each for about 1 second.
3. Within 15 seconds, it crashed.
Starting program: /usr/games/golly
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x080fd47c in UndoRedo::RememberGenFinish() ()
#0 0x080fd47c in UndoRedo::RememberGenFinish() ()
#1 0x080f855c in MainFrame::NextGeneration(bool) ()
#2 0x081124f5 in MainFrame::OnMenu(wxCommandEvent&) ()
#3 0x00621a9f in wxAppConsole::HandleEvent(wxEvtHandler*, void (wxEvtHandler::*)(wxEvent&), wxEvent&) const () from /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0
#4 0x006c0379 in wxEvtHandler::ProcessEventIfMatches(wxEventTableEntryBase const&, wxEvtHandler*, wxEvent&) () from /usr/lib/libwx_baseu-2.8.so.0 .....
I've tried using different governors for CPU (Conservative, Ondemand, etc.), and these crashes continued to occur. I also tried using a different kernel to no avail; the crashes occur both on 2.6.32-21-generic and 2.6.31-17-generic. How to fix whatever's causing these segfaults.
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Jan 17, 2011
First post here, some really useful information on the site especially for a Linux newbie like myself.
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 after Vista on a Compaq desktop not dual boot and with a completely blanked HDD, which although not the most powerful of desktops has an intel pentium dual core processor and a decent enough graphics card, enough to surpas the system requirements for linux anyway. After installing there has been alot of freezing, particularly when loading alot of programmes. It either freezes the screen completely so I cant do anything whatsoever and have to turn the computer off manually, or flashes a blank screen then goes back to the page I was previously on. However when it does this, the mouse works, but nothing responds, no keyboard shortcuts or anything. I have a feeling it may be the computer not the OS.
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Sep 13, 2010
I just want to know the distribution which is supported for longer time ex: Ubuntu will be supported for 18 months fedora for 14months. I repeat,I want a distribution which is stable,which I can leave without upgrading to next version for atleast 2 or 3 years. tell me other than Ubuntu LTS version
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Mar 22, 2010
I'm running a gateway - router pc with slack13 32bit on a pIII PC. I am using huge.s kernel. Apart from a firewall script, I have installed ulog deamon. I am also using the pc as a transparent proxy, a dns cache and a vpn server. So I haven't installed weird stuff. I have not installed X or any desktop environment. I get unexpected reboots however, and /var/log/messages does not state anything, not dmesg does. I am thinking of running a disk test on each disk ( one OS disk and one disk for the squid cache) and a memory test. I am not sure its a hardware issue (like the PSU, disk or RAM) because I used to let this pc ON for several weeks even before I started configuring it... and I couldn't hear anything wrong. Now I get to hear disks spinning down and up again, and even that very first boot sound you hear when you switch on the PC.
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Jun 20, 2011
Is there a way under linux to find out directory with frequent writes and/or deletes?
I'm using Ubuntu and recently bought SSD. I moved /tmp to ramdisk and did some other tweaks to avoid wear. But I was wondering if there's a way to pinpoint hotspots in filesystem where files are often written. For example webserver's log directory with many appends every minute or user's download directory where he downloads gigabytes of stuff only to be moved elsewhere soon after finishing.
I came across inotify which could probably do the trick but it seems it'd require lot of scripting which I'm not very familiar with
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Jan 20, 2010
I have an MacBook Pro 3,1 running Karmic ( 9.10 ) 64bit. The kernel is 2.6.32 patched to use the BFS scheduler. I am having issues with the touchpad and the keyboard. On occasion they stop working. It is possible that I have damaged hardware. However I would like to see if any other users report similar issues before blaming the HW. At the end of this message is what dmesg reports when this occurs.Often, before the touchpad and keyboard completely stop working they appear to stutter. They work fine then stop responding briefly then start working again.
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May 11, 2010
Since upgrading (fresh install) to Lucid, I've been having to go through disk checks about once or twice a week on boot. I'm not sure why Lucid thinks it needs to check my disk so often. I looked into it a bit, and found a command that was supposed to stop disk checks happening so often.
Code: sudo tune2fs -i 2w `mount | awk '$3 == "/" {print $1}'` is supposed to set it to 2 weeks. I used "/home" too as I have home on a separate partition and didn't want that to be checked too. All was fine until I booted up to find another disk check today. It can sometimes take over half an hour to finish and C to cancel doesn't always work either.
I always shutdown cleanly, unless Ubuntu completely locks up, which happens maybe once every six months (although it did happen yesterday, but I have rebooted it a few times since then with no checks happening until just now). Is there a way to just disable checks completely? I wouldn't mind running them manually every now and then, I just don't want to do it as often as Lucid does.
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Jun 18, 2011
I'm having issue with my wireless connection. I'm not sure if it is the WPA security causing the issue, but I randomly lose connection to the router. The network manager then scans for available wireless routers for a bit before trying to reconnect to my router and asking for my wireless password again.
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Oct 13, 2010
I made a fresh installation of Ubuntu 10.10 (64 bit) on a Sony PCG-81112M, the graphic cards is identified by lspci as "nVidia Corporation GT216 [GeForce FT 330M]". Quite frequently everything but the mouse pointer freezed on the screen, I found no way to recover from these situations but to restart the computer using the power button.
I decided to install the proprietary driver (as this is the recommended driver, I was confident this would solve the problem). As a consequence the system now hangs on boot after showing the Ubuntu 10.10 inial logo/text. I could start in recovery mode, but I'm not sure to which driver I should try to change to. I really need no fancy 3d stuff, just a robust computer to which I can attach and detach an external screen.
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Apr 19, 2011
I have three machines networked to my desktop which run a bunch of simulations in parallel. As they're running, I connect to them via SSH and screen to keep an eye on the runs and look at the output. They stay usually connected for days at a time. The SSH servers and client are running Fedora 14. Yesterday one of my coworkers accidentally yanked the plug on one of the servers while it was running. When I powered it up again, I started getting some odd connection problems. I couldn't connect to it via SSH initially because I got the Remote Host Identification Changed (RSA host key changed) error. I deleted the key in .ssh/known_hosts, which allowed me to connect, but it denied my password. I then logged into that machine locally, restarted sshd, and removed .ssh/known_hosts again. Now I can log in via SSH without problems. However, the connection dies with a "Write failed: Broken pipe" error every few minutes (as opposed to the other two machines, which stay connected indefinitely).
So my questions are:
1.) why would a power loss affect the behavior of the SSH server?
2.) why do I keep getting broken pipes now?
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Jan 10, 2011
I m running redhat 5.5 server on dell poweredge R910 on which we have Kvm running with 3 virtual machines. Now the server gets freeze's up frequently making us to force restart the server again. We have gone through the logs and browsed on several forums with the related errors but couldn't find any solution and also have checked on redhat site but was of no help.
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May 15, 2010
I have a problem in Ubuntu 10.04. The bug is well know which makes the hard disk head to park often (2-3 times per minute) that's dangerous for the drive in the long term and annoying for me (click-click-click).I found out the "ugly-fix" for old Ubuntu version which was :hdparm -B 254 /dev/sda instead of 128. It works. The problem is that it doesn't remains (when restart/standby/ac connection-disconnection).I found a script well known too :Code:1) make a file named "99-hdd-spin-fix.sh". The important thing is starting with "99".2) make sure the file contains the following 2 lines (fix it if you have PATA HDD):
#!/bin/sh
hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda
3) copy this file to 3 locations:
[code]....
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May 17, 2010
My laptop has a DVD/RW (It is both dash "-" and plus "+" able...whatever that really means.) drive. When I want to burn media,I grab a fresh disk from my bulk supplies and load it to the drive.Trouble #1 -- Software fails to recognize the fresh media as blank.I start the burn processing ... chug chug chug ... and something goes wrong.
Trouble #2 -- Software has some trouble writing the fresh media. I grab another fresh disk and repeat, often 2 or 3 times, before I get a successful burn. Can someone tell me why I have so much trouble with getting a media burn without all of the retry activities? How do I discover exactly what is going wrong? I don't find logs or similar that explain the troubles. I use both K3B (my fave) and Brasero.
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Jun 2, 2010
I created a thread about a problem a I had with my hard disk clicking whilst idle little while ago and I may now have stumbled upon a possible solution. The strange thing with the problem is that Ubuntu/Kubuntu didn't cause this problem but Opensuse 11.2 does.
I installed Fedora 13 to have a glimpse of what all the fuss was about and noticed that I had the same problem (hard disk clicking whilst idle ~ every 20 secs or so). Now there's a wiki on this subject and a few bug reports: [url]
Problem Description
Some ATA harddrives perform very frequent head unloads under Linux significantly shortening their lifespans. Root cause
The inactivity timer for head unload is configured too aggressively either via ATA APM (Advanced Power Management) feature or other non-standard means. Such aggressive settings are very fragile to changes in IO pattern and under Linux many such drives unload their heads only to re-load them shortly. Note that this relentless unloading/reloading cycle can also be triggered under Windows by installing programs which can alter the IO pattern (e.g. certain vaccine programs which runs in background).
Now two of the listed models with this problem are basically identical to my model (Dell Inspiron 1520) and basically share the same hardware: Dell Vostro 1500 and XPS 1520.
The workaround listed is to:
set APM to 254
Furthermore, there is a script: Storage-Fixup which can also be downloaded from opensuse software search. Indeed there is a report of this for a Vostro 1500: Gmane Loom
The report suggests looking at: Disk Power Management - openSUSE which lists a method to create a configuration file to management disk power management:
My question is whether I could download the storage-fixup rpm [url] has a description of it and it can be found: Software.openSUSE.org) and install it to (hopefully) solve the issue or should I follow the method given in: Disk Power Management - openSUSE
to set APM to 254:
Code:
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May 30, 2009
I installed openoffice 3.0 from openoffice site (www.openoffice.org) in my Fedora Core 6 OS computer. However, while doing that I might have made some mistakes. I removed openoffice 2.4 and 2.0 by using openoffice uninstall. In fact, couple of occasions, I have uninstalled and again fresh installed openoffice 3.0 when I noticed that moment I pressed any key, the program crashes. I have by mistaken the script ooffice, thinking that it would automatically install a new one. But there is no ooffice. I have to call soffice for that.
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Jun 22, 2010
I'm using BSNL(India) EVDO service. I got ZTE dialer for Fedora and it works fine. But it has started causing error which was not seen when I installed system freshly. It's just been a week and whenever I disconnect ppp interface, xmessage window open and I see error message.
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Nov 18, 2009
This probably isn't new, but it snuck up on me somehow. I usually use Eclipse for development and it's not having a problem, but on my laptop, I recently had to run ant manually and got a surprise:
Code:
319 roland> ant
Buildfile: build.xml
[code]....
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Dec 11, 2009
I have installed Fedora 12 as a clean installl, everything worked perfect. But lately either after installing an update or making some parameter changes, while restarting my system it just comes up with lots of error messages and crashes. I have to press the switch off button to shutdown. I don't know from where to get that error message to post here
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Mar 3, 2010
X crashes exactly 10 minutes after log on, and I am returned to log in screen. I am running: Kernel Linux 2.6.30.10-105.2.23.fc11.i586. Gnome 2.26.3. on a Dell Laptop.
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Feb 21, 2011
Last week I performed an update on my laptop running Fedora 14 with "yum update".
The first problem was that while updating, my machine was frozen and after a had reboot I got a kernel panic (#$%*) After adding the new kernel manually that was fixed but after rebooting, I couldn't start my mailer (Evolution) any more.
When I start evolution while running KDE I get this message (tail var/log/messages):
Feb 21 18:03:10 BEL001 NetworkManager[1418]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: completed -> group handshake
Feb 21 18:03:10 BEL001 NetworkManager[1418]: <info> (wlan0): supplicant connection state: group handshake -> completed
[Code]....
How can I get evolution back to work again on my machine?
PS.After rebooting the login screen has changed and now I can't change anymore to using gnome. It only gives the options to login to KDE or 'custom'. How can I change custom to Gnome?
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Jun 6, 2011
I've recently moved from Ubuntu (after moving from Gentoo and Arch) to Fedora 15 and am experiencing some crashing.
What happens is after a few hours or not particularly hard usage (web browser, a couple of terminals, maybe having run a few Ant scripts etc) all the fans seem to go into serious overdrive. I can't move the mouse and the system doesn't respond to any keyboard input. After about five minutes of this, the fans slow down but the system remains unresponsive. I've left it for a further 30 minutes, still nothing so I have to do a hard reset.
My hardware is a stock laptop Compal IFL90. Besides the standard installed software, the only other things I've installed are;
- Sun JDK (and Eclipse, but not running during crash)
- Pogo Plug software (pogoplugfs which is started on login)
- Cryptkeeper for my encfs stuff
- Opera
Can anyone point me to a possible fix, or let me know what other information is needed to try and get more complete support? It's not to much of a problem at the moment, but when I start using my laptop more frequently, having to power cycle every few hours is going to make is to difficult to use.
Code:
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Jul 19, 2011
Every time selaert is triggered, I get this problem. I have looked everywhere for the required report module. Where can I get it from?
Opps, sealert hit an error!
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/sealert", line 692, in <module>
run_as_dbus_service(username)
[Code]....
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Jun 29, 2010
I upgraded to FC13 via yum and use KDE. As soon as I attached a second monitor KDE crashes. I can still boot into Gnome but would like to keep my KDE.
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