Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:25:19 +1000 From: "Gemma Fletcher" <slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Fw: KDE 3.5 Crashing(Solved) Message-ID: <00c101c7b3a3$0f9bac10$a3fd31d2@daisy>
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Thanks everyone for their help! Final result was my video card. I had a power surge a few weeks ago - and while I have a surge protector it stilled messed my card up a bit. So periodically the card would die and so would the system. Pulled it out and used the onboard and problem solvered. >> Hello Gemma, >> Hello Nikola >> >>> Although it really looks like hardware, you can also do this to be 100% >>> sure it isn't software related: >>> >>> (1) Had you used that computer before you have installed FreeBSD? It >>> would be a nice idea to post here the output of your 'dmesg' >>> or /var/log/messages. >> >> Yes it was running XP - will post output once I finalise this car sale >> and >> have a spare moment. :) >> >>> (2) Have you tried to run a small script as Matthias proposed? >> >> Not yet - am reading up on how to run a script :) >> >>> (3) Are you sure your ports are up-to-date? If in doubt, install >>> ports-mgmt/portupgrade and run >>> >>> # portversion -v -L = >> >> To cut a long scary story short sort of. I've actually reinstalled 6.2, >> 4 >> times as I seem to have so many little things missing I wasn't sure if >> it >> was me or the install. So upgrading ports always eneded up crashing. >> Anyway first few times went the full install, final time went with as >> just a >> user install without X. After that i installed X and then KDE from the >> ports collection. Attempted a 7.2 upgrade thinking that might help a few >> problems and in a word - nightmare. A week later after finally getting >> past >> the libxfct step the actual upgrade crashed as it couldn't seem to create >> the xorg-libraries 7.2 directory. So I just decided to ignore it for a >> while. But aside from xorg - everything else is up to date. >> >>> (4) If yes, as of "how to check X without KDE", do the following: >>> >>> (a) run 'xinit' without ~/.xinitrc file to avoid starting KDE and >>> or any other window manager; (once you start it, you can go back >>> by 'exit' or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace; please note that you must put the >>> mouse over the window in order to move focus on it); >>> >>> (b) check if there are warning -- (WW) -- or other suspicious messages >>> in /var/log/Xorg.0.log; >>> >>> (c) while in pure xinit session, run Firefox or other application that >>> is not KDE/Qt related; >>> >>> (d) run Opera, Skype or similar app that is Qt- but not KDE-related; >>> >>> (e) run KDE applications (Konqueror, KMail, etc.) >>> >>> and report one by one what happened, from (1) to (4e). Maybe it helps >>> to isolate the problem, besides hardware tests :) >> >> Will try the above this arvo when i do the rest. >> >> Thanks heaps :) >>> Nikola Lečić >> Gemma >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" >
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