kde 3.0.3, knotify crashing respawnq

vod · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

Hi I am running gentoo 2.0 for x86. I updated to kde 3.0.3 the other day and knotify and kwin would crash at start. So I figured I'd recently changed to gcc 3.2 maybe that was the problem. So I did an emerge -e world to make sure everything was compiled with the same compiler. Kwin has stopped crashing, but knotify keeps crashing. Worse, it respawns every second and crashes making kde impossible to use. I'm not sure what the problem is, I've tried emerge -e kde with no optmizing flags and it still does it.

fillerbunny · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 27

Hi vod,

Did you ever find out what this was?
I've started getting it the same error!! :-(

I've emerged kde 3.0.3 I had no kde installed at all previously.

I'm running startkde from within an ssh session to tunnel X11
through to my local display. This all seems to work fine apart from
the knotify thing.

get this output each time knotify crashes...

Xlib: extension "XInputExtension" missing on display "localhost:11.0".
Failed to get list of devices
mcop warning: user defined signal handler found for SIG_PIPE, overriding
KCrash: crashing.... crashRecursionCounter = 2
KCrash: Application Name = knotify path = <unknown> pid = 15244
DCOP aborting call from 'anonymous-15236' to 'knotify'
ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error!

help! :-(

mark · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Jun 2002 Posts: 119

I've just upgraded to GCC3.2 and am having this problem. I had just started a very long emerge -e kde and I think I'll skip it if others are having this problem too
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Regards

Mark

fillerbunny · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 27

I've found this doing a google search...

http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/mail-archives/blfs-support/2002/07/1233.html

> I followed your advice and recompiled aRTS, kdelibs and kdebase with no
> optimization. I used the following flags to compile all three
> packages: --disable-debug --with-alsa --enable-final. Its working know.

I have tried the same and it has *not* worked for me....
:-(

fillerbunny · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 27

I think this might be related to arts.
It seems to happen when a sound event is occuring.
(not sure, since I don't have a sound card - maybe that's the problem).

running artsd on it's causing a segmentation fault...

fillerbunny root # artsd -l0 -f
gsl: using Unix98 pthreads directly for mutexes and conditions
Segmentation fault

<shrug>

pilla · Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2002 2:46 am Post subject:

For me, kwin dies when I try to kill a window by double-clicking in the left button in the top of the window. I am not sure it is the same issue you have... I am using kde 3.1 beta2

vod · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 10 Jun 2002 Posts: 90

I wish I could be of more help. When I posted this no one seemed to have the same problem and this thread sunk like denis quaid in a fake tarpit.
So I thought it might have been my cflags. I compiled kde with emptytree -e, and no opt. flags.
It didn't help me.
I tried all available versions of kde, even ones working previously, still no luck. So I found a solution that worked for me...
I started using gnome2.
I posted a bug in bugs.gentoo.org also.
Someone in #kde told me to post it as a kde bug also but since I wasn't sure it was a kde bug I held off doing that.

hynek · n00b Joined: 23 Jun 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Berlin

Hi,

although I don't use KDE I had the same issue over some releases and now I investigated the crashes and solved it for me (I just didn't want that anyone can say I don't use KDE because I'm too stupid to install it

).

artsd had although compiled with gcc 3.2.1 dependencies on gcc 3.1.1-libraries so I renamed /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i686-pc-linux-gnu/3.1.1 and looked what's broken now and rebuilt the problematic packages. After that I renamed it back and unmerged gcc 3.1.1 completely. Then I unmerged everything with "kde" in it's name and did a emerge kde - and after some hours: it works. No I can go back to really useful WMs.

hth