jaunty: zombies after update

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 01 March 2009 11:48:41 Mark Greenwood wrote:
> On Sunday 01 March 2009 07:36:34 Ric Moore wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 21:56 -0500, Alan Dacey wrote:
> > > Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > > > Hello everyone,
> > > > 
> > > > Is anyone running Jaunty getting zombies after Friday update?
> > > I just get crashes.  nepomukservices goes down all the time.  I'm going to do a 
> > > fresh install of Alpha 5 and see if that changes.
> > > -- 
> > > Alan
> > 
> 
> Are you using the nvidia driver? There's a big thread over on the nvidia forums about this. It seems to affect anything that runs in the system tray. I've found that starting KDE with an empty session is a workaround, and I've raised a bug:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335879
> 
> Mark

Actually , on the same subject, does anybody know if it's possible to revert the nvidia driver back to the previous version? On the nvidia forums people are saying this cures the problem, but I don't know how to do this on Kubuntu.

Mark

> 
> > Thanks to you guys for doing the beta testing! I used to use Fedora, so
> > I know what a ride that is and you all are to be commended for going
> > through the agonies. :) Ric
> > 
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> > ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
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