upgrade from KDE 3.4 to 3.5 crashes

Metalbarthug · 12-13-2005, 04:36 AM

This is a strange one,

I installed an unstable release of KDE 3.5 with no issues, Then when the stable release came out, I downloaded the .tar file and followed the same steps as the install: that is:

untar'd the KDE 3.5 tarball (with all the KDE libs etc)
Pointed Yast at it and updated all KDE files highlighted in Blue
Got an 'all clear' when I checked dependancies
Reboot

Now whenever I shut down, the Kicker reappears briefly and I get a 'Sigserv , Kicker crash.

It is a brief error message and then everything shuts down as normal, but is is annoying (especially as I had NO issues like this with the unstable 3.5 release)

I know this sounds a bit obvious, but should I revert back to the unstable 3.5, or is there a fix?

UPDATE: Just wondering, would a better practice be to boot into the Command Line (Runlevel 3), start Yast from there, then do a fresh install of the stable 3.5?

Previously I'd done all this in the KDE GUI

Metalbarthug · 12-13-2005, 03:42 PM

I downgraded to my unstable 3.5 KDE and everything seems fine...

very strange.....

reddazz · 12-13-2005, 03:46 PM

The KDE 3.5 rpms from the Suse supplementary repositories work fine for me. Where did you get your packages?

Metalbarthug · 12-13-2005, 04:16 PM

from the UK Mirrorservice - www.mirrorservice.org

should probably try the SUSe mirrors, huh?

Metalbarthug · 12-14-2005, 01:23 AM

This is getting quite annoying, a couple of reboots in and Kicker is crashing again.

I will try to uninstall KDE, then fresh reinstall of the stable 3.5 and see what happens.

It seems that the crash is happening regardless of version of KDE - 3.4.3, 3.5 unstable or 3.5 stable.....

The backtrace doesn't reveal anything worthy. It seems to be just a 'hiccup' KDE has developed.

csanchisb · 01-04-2006, 05:56 PM

It's been happening to me too. I found out it only happens when kmix is running. I tried rebuilding the kdemultimedia3 src rpm from the ftp.suse.com update for KDE and still it does the same. I'm clueless.

uglydot · 01-15-2006, 12:09 PM

I installed using konstruct and I have this very same problem. All I see in backtrace is a lot of QT stuff.

csanchisb · 01-15-2006, 03:06 PM

Take a look at this:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109548

It appears to be a known bug. In the last comments Aaron J. Seigo says it will be fixed in KDE 3.5.1 so I think we'll just have to wait.

Metalbarthug · 09-04-2006, 06:29 AM

Just to say, I started getting Kicker crashes after I had customised certain preferences in the panel, for example, backgound image, size of icons. It seems KDE still had a few bugs in that early release of 3.5.

Since then I've moved to using GNOME, seems to be a bit more stable, but it horses for courses when it comes to Desktop choice.