kde takes a nose dive

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 02 June 2004 19:09, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> john brennan-sardou wrote:
> > Hello,
> >    Houston, I think we have a problem. Every time I try to enter into
> > kde under Fedora core 2 kde sends me messages saying that the programe
> > has crashed and gives me the Signal 11 and a Sigserv message. Of course
> > the system becomes very unstable and my nerves can't stand it. In

I've seen an email signature "The bug is not a problem. It's a call
to action".

Define "system becomes very unstable" (details?).

> > console mode there is no problem so one should think that the vidéo may
> > be at the root of the problem. It is in fact a Nvidia Gforce fx (without
> > the nvidia driver from nvidia that is). There is a whole lot of Via
> > components in this computer (it is not my fault, I do what I can) and
> > every time I try to "yum" to livna I get a segmentation fault. Can you

Buugy hardware typically results in not only segvs, but oopses and crashes.
You are drawing conclusions before any investigation.

> > please give me some idea how to get out of this one? It seems to me that
> > there is a gui problem here.

Try to start bare X first. If it works, you have KDE problem.
If not, you have X problem. Etc. Generally, narrow it down first.

When you have simple application segv'ing (not whole X+KDE),
you can run it under strace and gdb and know where exactly it
is feeling not ok.

> I suspect that there are problems with Fedora Core.  I have no proof but I
> do know that its GLibc is hacked and contains at least some code from
> version 2.3.3 although that version has not been released yet.  This may,
> or may not, be the source of the problems.
>
> The KDE-RedHat project has released RPMs for Fedora Core 2:
>
> ftp://apt.kde-redhat.org/apt/kde-redhat/2/RPMS.stable
>
> Have you tried these?
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