Re: 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2 kwin dies silently

Sid Boyce
2007-03-02T04:23:01Z

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Sid Boyce wrote:
>>> > That's very much appreciated. The point is that all vanilla
>>> kernels up
>>> > to 2.6.20+ have not had the problems now seen on 2.6.20-rc1 and
>>> > 2.6.20-rc2 and like other problems reported, sic framebuffer, etc.,
>>> > there is a distinct likelihood that it's related to those kernels and
>>> > worth reporting here where it will also be seen by the openSUSE
>>> kernel
>>> > developers.
>>>
>>> Try running an strace on kwin and reporting the result.
>>>
>>>
>> Modified /opt/kde3/bin/startkde as below, but got no output, not even
>> an empty file.
>> strace -s 256 -f kwin --lock -o /home/lancelot/KWIN.out &
>
> Perhaps that line is never executed.
>
> Try running kwin from your konsole after it dies, with the strace of
> course. Oh, and put the '-o ...' before the kwin command, not after.
>
>

Oops!, above text should read the same as the subject line, problems
seen on 2.6.21-rc1 and 2.6.21-rc2.
The strace is huge 2737627 2007-03-02 03:28 KWIN.out. Further digging
shows kwin, kicker and klauncher and perhaps other kdeinit stuff also
die - no desktop icons after those 3 are started from the commandline.
Moving kdesktop_lock out of /opt/kde3/bin, everything comes back after
the video is blanked -- no password required.
I shall run like that (2.6.21-rc2-git1 currently) and wait for openSUSE
to upgrade to 2.6.21. I can send the straces of kicker and kwin on if
you think it's still worth it.
Thanks and Regards
Sid.

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