Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 15:30:14 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE 3.2/Xwindows dying strangely without warning Message-ID: <200404181530.14087.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20040418182432.00a27010@pop.voyager.net> References: <5.2.0.9.2.20040418182432.00a27010@pop.voyager.net>
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On Sunday 18 April 2004 03:24 pm, Dragoncrest wrote: > Nobody has any answers for me on this? > I have had my .kde* files get corrupted and do what you describe. I finally did a cd and then rm -rf .kde* I had to resetup kde for that user but my problems went away. You want to back up your bookmarks and address book. Then, re-import them after you setup kde. FWIW, I have had kde sessions running for much longer than 10 days without problems. I have been following the upgrade to 4.10 and those systems were updated less than 10 days ago. Kent > At 10:42 AM 4/17/04 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote: > >Ok, I can't contribute this to anything I've ever encountered or > >something that I'm doing, but it seems that after about 7-10 days > > KDE just dies on me. No crash, no errors, no "I'm gonna shut > > down". Nothing. I will be working along and then suddenly it's > > just not there. It just goes away without a single bit of warning. > > So I login under my user account at the console that's now staring > > at me and only the basic processes that should be running just > > after startup are there, but not a single Xwindows thing, or > > anything related to KDE. > > > >Even the logs show nothing. No core dumps, no memory errors, not > > even an Xwindows shutting down message. It's just like Xwindows > > and KDE were never running in the first place. I can then restart > > KDE and it goes back to the same saved state from the last time kde > > was restarted as though nothing had happened. I'm seriously > > baffled. This just started about 2 weeks ago after my last reboot. > > Anyone got any ideas? None of my other boxes do this, so I'm > > lacking other systems to use as examples. Any help is apreciated. > > > >Here's the apps I have running at the time it goes away/dies. > > > >BitTorrent > >Mozilla (for work related webpages) > >FireFox (for personal surfing) > >XMMS (playing) > >Knotes > >Klipper > >Krusader > >Kedit > >3 console windows > >Gaim > >Kmail > > > >That's it. Nothing that I can think of that might destabalize KDE > > like this. Thanks in advance for your help. > > > >_______________________________________________ > >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > >To unsubscribe, send any mail to > > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html
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