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

Avi Kivity
2007-03-01T15:13:48Z

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.

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