Problems with KDE or is it Konqueror?

jkruer01

Hello,

I just recently got Gentoo up and running and I am having several wierd things happen in KDE. For example, on my desktop I have a home icon. If I click this icon the icon disappears, then all my icons disapear and then they reappear but nothing else happens. This process takes about 3-5 seconds. This happens with all icons not just my home directory. For example the same thing happens with a text file.

If I use the Home icon that is on the task bar, Konqueror opens up to my home directory fine. However, if I click on any file to open it then the KDE crash handler comes up saying that Konqueror crashed.

Can anyone help me? What have I setup wrong?

Thanks!

[UK]Superdude · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 5:25 am Post subject:

Sounds nasty.
Can you give us a little bit more information, as nothing springs to mind immediately.
Is there a certain action other than simply your home icon that causes a crash?
What version of KDE are you using?
Are you using XFree or Xorg?
What kernel are you using?
Are you using experimental GCC or Glibc?
What CFLAGS did you use to compile your system with?

Have you tried bugs.gentoo.org to see if there are any others having similar issues?

I'm currently using Kde 3.3-beta-1 and have been happy with the stability I've seen so far. With a bit more info hopefully we can get you running nice and stable too.

jkruer01 · Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

I've been having the same problem, using Xfree, 2.6 kernel, after upgrading to KDE 3.2.3 from 3.2.2.

Interestingly, I note that I open any ftp:/, file:/, smb:/, what-have-you, and it loads completely [I can scroll by dragging the scroll bar], but clicking on any FILE [not folder!], or using the keyboard to scroll around with up/down/left/right, crashes it with a signal 11 [SIGSEGV, or segmentation fault]. Backtrace reports the following:

ChrisM87 · Posted: Sat Aug 07, 2004 11:51 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I just registered to say that I am expiriencing same problems.

My configuration: (fresh emerged a few days ago)
Kernel: 2.6.7 (development-sources)
KDE: 3.2.3
XFree86 with nvidia driver
Latest gcc etc. (as I set, this machine has been set up a few days ago)

My make.conf:
# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically built this stage
# Please consult /etc/make.conf.example for a more detailed example
CFLAGS="-march=pentium4 -O3 -mcpu=i686 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
MAKEOPS="-j2"
USE="-gtk -gnome qt kde dvd alsa cdr icq msn usb xmms"

I hope, anyone finds a solution for this because a desktop with non-working icons and a file explorer...eh konqueror that doesn't work isn't a very nice system. :roll:

Just a tip for all others with the same problem: Try to click an icon and hold the mouse until all icons reappeared. Then release the button.

ChrisM

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

What's the point of having -march=pentium4 -mcpu=i686? First you specify with -march to optimise it so that it can only run on cpus supporting pentium4 instructions, then you underoptimise it with mcpu for no apparant reason. Is this a new trend since you both seem to do this?

PMT · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 212

Oops. Forgot to post, I found the bug.

It's documented in KDE's BugZilla; it apparently doesn't like the -msse2 flag on kdeartwork. In other words, you can either -march=pentium3 and emerge just kdeartwork [the problem should go away; it did for me], or -mno-sse2 [I think that's the disable SSE2 flag]. And before you say that you're not using it, -march=pentium4 enables it, and I'm guessing it doesn't like it with the -mcpu=686 [you're not really using a P4, if you have to use that flag, now are you?].

Hope that helps.
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ChrisM87 · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 9:24 am Post subject:

Hi,

@sindre: Sorry, I am really noob, so i went to #gentoo-anfaenger (which is a german IRC channel for gentoo beginners) and asked for the optimal make.conf for my system. So I just copied to my make.conf what they gave me. But isn't -march=pentium4 kind of a specification of 686, so the compiler will just ignore 686 because it knows that it should compile for 686 with p4 instructions?

@PMT: Sorry again, but what exactly have I got to do? Shall I insert -mno-sse2 into my CXXFLAGS and then reemerge kdeartwork. After that I can take the -mno-sse2 out of my make.conf again? But won't that give problems, if a new version of KDE is released and I'm updating my system with SSE2 support again? Or do you think, this bug is fixed in the next version?

ChrisM

ChrisM87 · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 1:10 pm Post subject:

*push*

plz help

jkruer01 · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:

Hey,