Occasional weird crashes

[Dik Takken]

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Janne Ojaniemi wrote:

> I occasionally experience weird crashes on my system. I wont have any
> backtraces and the like. First the specs of my system:

you can look in your "~/.xsession-errors" file, maybe the app gives some 
useful distress messages before it goes boom.

Anyway, it's strange that you don't get a crash handler window. If you 
have a specific application that crashes more often than others, you can 
try always having gdb attached to it. When it crashes, you can see what 
happened.

> Athlon64 3200+
> GCC 3.4
> Gentoo Linux 64Bit
>
> Now, I'm not sure that are the "crashes" really crashes. What happens is that
> the app just suddenly vanishes. For example: I was just browsing the web when
> Kwin suddenly disappeared! Konqueror was still running, but the windecs
> (among other Kwin-related) disappeared. And that happens to Kicker as well.
> It just vanishes. If I manually restart Kicker, it appears again. And it has
> happened on some "real apps" as well. Kmail has sometimes just vanished. Once
> I was in a middle of writing an email, when it just vanished. I managed to
> bring it back, and it was exactly where I left it.
>
> Now, that doesn't happen that often. Maybe once every few days. But since
> that's the only unstability I have encountered with KDE, I would like to have
> it fixed somehow. Other than that, my system has been rock-solid.
>
> Anyone else seen this?
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