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Hello,

I am having a crash problem with my KDE v3.5.8 crashing X to console (I use startx command when booting up Debian). Anyways, I think I had this problem for months and maybe a year, but finally figured out the pattern to reproduce it.

Basically in KDE, I go to virtual desktop 2, 3, or 4 (I have four set up). If I press ctrl-alt-F1 (or any other console screens) keys to go back to console/text mode, then KDE and X crash. I can reproduce this easily. If I am in virtual desktop #1, then no crash.

I have two logs from X: http://pastebin.ca/936064 and I hope these help! Any ideas on what's the problem and how to fix it? Thank you in advance.

OK I reproduced it without KDE, so it is not KDE's fault!

I basically loaded up GKrellM2 (doesn't matter if it uses defaults or customized) with gkrellm-hdplop plugin running only on ONE virtual desktop in KDE v3.5 or Gnome v2. Then, I switched to another virtual desktop that didn't have GKrellM on screen.

Then, I pressed ctrl-alt-F# (# is a number like 1) to go back to console/text mode. It resulted a X crash like:
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X11/X(xf86SigHandler+0x81) [0x80c89c1]
1: [0xffffe420]
2: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x81771e0]
3: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x814a8ba]
4: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x814b504]
5: /usr/bin/X11/X [0x8154c1e]
6: /usr/bin/X11/X(Dispatch+0x1a1) [0x808eff1]
7: /usr/bin/X11/X(main+0x47e) [0x8076e2e]
8: /lib/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe0) [0xb7dc5450]
9: /usr/bin/X11/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x1e9) [0x80761b1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting


If I disable this plugin, then I won't get the crash. This plugin is so cool to have. I am just wondering if I am the only one with this problem. :(

Thanks in advance. :)

OK, it is definitely not KDE's fault.

Just a follow-up. I am starting to think this is NVIDIA's fault. I went
back to nv driver by renaming /etc/X11/xorg.conf and run startx. I tried
to reproduce the problem and no crash with gkrellm-hdplop plugin!

I will stop posting updates in here unless I find evidences it is related to KDE. Thanks for reading.