From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 19 04:36:44 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 516BD16A468 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:36:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C7713C48A for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:36:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jackbarnett@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id a29so3577366pyi for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:36:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=NeFCIwxEpu5Wu/IQPJik0XlNI5HaCAb8/IeeE187lVWBCmEZgzMNAY3WoZL18sBVeWGYR3QzKVFULdC0pvhkBebFrg0acwtLz7h/DfSBDyb3N0V89yAcfTWrfDnMY9JSZJfTtNGP10yfOmaJDLHH8oX0CD4WJ4+Bz/7G4rrYoZU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=g2fXPRv71y6zuK5nKqocUO9tpDBsYDLMcXkoE/e2JT85mF9jjrSqCL9+jEtKTULjNQXpNck6tt9SV+fcNan/AVbSaEwsQDyBMRDsYRk1vXk23TKjMFywvd55wZyk/soebvsND797/6nMvY6ja246B7QzFCKhc2FMWdjOA1djuHc= Received: by 10.35.66.1 with SMTP id t1mr11950925pyk.1182227803213; Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.17.10? ( [66.41.41.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id a70sm11572463pye.2007.06.18.21.36.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 18 Jun 2007 21:36:43 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <46775D57.2020506@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 23:36:39 -0500 From: Jack Barnett User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200706152001.37198.slvhwke@optusnet.com.au> <20070619035740.GC797@triptrop.wlan.in.nicta.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20070619035740.GC797@triptrop.wlan.in.nicta.com.au> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: KDE 3.5 Crashing X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jackbarnett@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 04:36:44 -0000 Timothy Bourke wrote: On Jun 15 at 20:01 +1000, Gemma Fletcher wrote: Installed BSD 6.2 a few days ago and am totally new to it all. I installed KDE 3.5 and it was working nicely until it just....stopped. No obvious crash - it just froze. Had to reboot the system with the reset button as no other method was working. [...] Are you using dial-up with kppp? I recently saw a freeze-then-reboot under KDE 3.5 which was fixed by using ppp (user-mode) rather than kppp (kernel-mode) for dial-up. Tim. Next time instead of a reboot, try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. that should try a shutdown of the X server ... might save you a hard reboot :) Also are you sure it's KDE? Could it be a weird video driver? Does it happen with other WMs?