KDE crashes randomly (at least once a day)

[sarah frances c. azurin]

Hi Jessica,

You were right about using the FC repos. I've upgraded to the latest from the 
kde-redhat repos, and so far, so good. No crashes lately. :)

Thanks again,
Sarah
--happy with KDE again. :)


On Thursday 07 July 2005 14:17, sarah frances c. azurin wrote:
> Hi Jessica,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply. I upgraded using the kde-redhat packages and
> not the ones from Fedora. (i think, but i'll have to double check that the
> latest upgrades came from kde-redhat.)
>
> I dont use translucency/shadows for my windows. but i do use it for the
> kicker panel. (which also crashes upon logging out.) I've tried disabling
> transparency from the panel, no dice. still happens.
>
> As for ~/.xsession-errors, unfortunately, I dont have it. :( Is there a way
> to force logging into it ?
>
> Thanks again,
> Sarah
>
> On Thursday 07 July 2005 13:44, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 14:56, sarah c. azurin wrote:
> > > This started happening after I upgrade to KDE 3.4 from KDE 3.3 on a FC3
> > > machine. Then I tried a clean install of FC4 with KDE 3.4 (still
> > > crashed once a day). So, I upgraded again to KDE 3.4.1 (thinking that
> > > it might fix the problem) -- it still crashes.
> >
> > Are you using Fedora KDE packages? They're pretty substandard and if so
> > you may find the ones from the kde-redhat repository here are a better
> > bet:
> >
> > http://kde-redhat.sourceforge.net/
> >
> > Also, are you using true transparency and drop shadows with the composite
> > extention in X.org? This is a great way of getting X to crash randomly.
> >
> > Another place to look for error messages is in ~/.xsession-errors

-- 
sarah c. azurin
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