kde freezes after updating distro ( open suse 11.4 )

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Monday 06 June 2011 22:02:09 nitin chadha wrote:
> hi,
> i somehow, crashed my open suse, and hence all the files of the build
> environment
> i made. when i again reinstalled it and then updated through zypper, kde
> started to freeze
> after the splash screen. i have sucessfully repeated the process ( of
> freezing ) two times.
> so, here i am looking for clues to solve the problem before i end up doing
> same the third time.
> 
> exact problem :
> kde starts , followed by splash screen and i can see my desktop.
> but then no mouse click or keyboard press has any effect( only ctrl  +alt +
> F1 works ).
> 
> basically, i am looking at the logs ( but where they are ? ), so that i can
> get some clue.
> secondly, the repositories to add before updating. as my project deals with
> plasma-active,
> so, i used plasma-active and kde-unstable repo's, as mentioned in techbase.
> ( along with
> packman and contrib ).
> 
> i did tried following things before installing and upgrading before second
> time.
> 1. tried to rebuild x and done that. gnome starts well.
> 2. set changes of .kde4 in home directory to default
Please note that this is a developer mailing list and no user support forum. If you need user 
support please try forum.kde.org.

Your problem sounds like a known NVIDIA issue which is fixed in the latest beta driver 
release.

Cheers
Martin
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