[kde-freebsd] kde4 crash scenario post update to 4.3.5

[David Southwell]

> On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 15:03:41 +0000, David Southwell <david at vizion2000.net>
> 
> wrote:
> > i Guys
> >
> > Thanks in advance - for some help here -- I could sure use some.
> >
> > I am hoping someone could help me along a bit here.
> >
> > As my recent posts show I started with quite a number of kde problems
> > since the upgrade to 4.3.5.
> >
> > They were:
> > 1. kde4 failed to load properly. Solved by first inserting the new path
> 
> for
> 
> > startkde in xinitrc then by deinstalling, recompiling and reinstalling
> > soprano and oxygen-icons. Then recompiling kdebase4-runtime.
> > 2. kde keyboard would not function. Solved by deleting
> > .kde4/share/config/kaccessrc
> >
> > 3. I am left with
> >
> > Total system crash in the following scenario.
> >
> > (a) User logs in
> > (b) startx
> > (c) kde4 loads and use works the session
> > (d) user logs out x session terminates.
> > (e) user attempts to start a new x seession with:
> > (f) startx
> > (g) system crashes
> >
> > Necesaary to reboot the system in single user mode, run fsck -y and then
> > bring the system up multi-user!!
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any ideas about this one??
> >
> > Freebsd 7.2 p3 amd64 on intel quad core
> 
> David,
> 
> What video card are you using?  Are you using NVIDIA's?   The reason I ask
> is that I had this problem on AMD64 FreeBSD8 and have reported to NVIDIA.
> The system would crash on log out of X.  This was resolved by using an
> older video card (still NVIDIA).
> 
> Rusty Nejdl
> http://networking.ringofsaturn.com
> 
The card is a winfast PX7800GT providing openGL with dual DVI. The crash  
problem was not present before upgrading to 3.4.5 so I need some convincing 
before assuming it is the video card.

It seems more likely that it is something introduced in 3.4.5 or some 
configuration necessities with which I have not complied!!! The latter is more 
likely than the former!

 That being said it supports nvidia sli technology and nvidia nview.

David

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