Major Issue...System Crashes

Peter Kümmel syntheticpp at gmx.net
Sun Apr 26 18:46:38 CEST 2009


postmaster+customer-opinions.net wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  I wish to report a major issue I've found with the KDE on Windows 
> project. I attempted top run the software on a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop 
> computer running Windows Vista SP1 and found it to run reasonably well 
> with the only major issues I found at that time being due to ktorrent 
> freezing rather than being able to begin any torrent download. When I 
> tried to reboot my computer froze within seconds post completing the 
> reboot (soon after the machine would enter a recurring loop of full 
> system crashes, automatic reboots, freezes, crashes etc)...the issue so 
> destabilised Windows that a re-install of Vista was my only way to get 
> back to a working system. This proved to be a repeatable issue and to 
> occur with, or without, SP1 installed. It made no difference if I used 
> any KDE win programme or not the mere act of installing KDE win being 
> enough to wreak havoc with my OS. BTW rolling back to previous restore 
> points was of no help. Even with nothing new installed post a system 
> re-install save for KDE Win the bug was still repeating itself.
> 
>  Please understand that I don't blame anyone for my problems with the 
> software and had full data backup in place before using the project. I 
> merely hope that this bug report may be of assistance to you in 
> improving the project.

Are you logged in as root? Does it also happen when you install kde-windows
as normal user only?

Peter


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