KDE(3.5) crashing on shutdown?

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/8/28 Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Jonas Norlander <jonorland at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 2008/8/28 Mike Shaw <mdshaw89 at gmail.com>:
>>> > Lately I've been noticing that KDE(Kubuntu 7.10 - KDE 3.5) seems to
>>> > crash
>>> > upon shutdown quite frequently and wanted to see if anyone else is
>>> > seeing
>>> > this issue?  This even will happen when I shutdown all applications
>>> > first
>>> > and then shutdown.  It will happen about 30-40% of the time.
>>> >
>>> > l8r,
>>> >
>>> > Mike
>>>
>>> With KDE do you mean kicker and/or programs using kicker? In that case
>>> i see that to, kicker, kopete, kmess, kwin and some other KDE programs
>>> crashes with a SIGSEGV when i log out, shutdown or reboot. I had this
>>> earlier this year but it disappeared over the summer but it's back
>>> now. I have tried to rename the .kde dir to start with fresh settings
>>> and install debug symbols to get some backtraces but never seen
>>> anything that could help to understand why it crashes.
>>>
>>> / Jonas
>>>
>> Its kicker.  I would be up for renaming .kde but it happens on a my wife's
>> fresh install also!  I can ignore it but that doesn't go over with the
>> wife!  ;)
>>
>> Looks like I will have to start actually trying to collect the backtraces
>> and doing something with them now.
>
>
> One last minute thought - will KDE 4.x make this go away???
>

Never tried KDE4 so can't say but i suspect it's only happens with
KDE3. I never got any good from the backtraces only that it crashes
most of the times in one of the QT destructor's. Perhaps it's time to
file a bug for this as i'm not the only one struck by this.

/ Jonas