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Hi,
I have a somehow weird and strange problem and would like to post it here. Maybe I get an answer? I have a Desktop computer with a Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 graphics card and a dualboot configuration with Windows 7 and OpenSuse 11.3. Both are 64-Bit Systems. On OpenSuse I have KDE 4.5.2 running (BTW: it is really cool!). And I use the proprietary nvidia driver 256.53 When I have had Windows running and want to start up OpenSuse to do some proper work, I reboot the machine, of course. But after OpenSuse has booted, the KDE Desktop crashes all the time. This starts a cycle: it tries to rebuild the desktop and it immediately crashes again, it tries to rebuild the desktop and crashes again... this goes on and on... Once I saw the KDE crash handler and it said "segmentation fault", but I could not see which part of KDE it was, so if it was Kwin or Plasma - I don´t have a clue. Additionally the time settings are totally wrong. This is a detail I noticed as the taskbar was there for a short moment... Anyway, when I then switch off the computer and disconnect it from the electrical power for, say, 10 Minutes, and then start Opensuse again, it all works fine, without any problems at all. To me it looks like that Windows occupies some memory on the Mainboard or in the graphics card, which will be set free by disconnecting the whole computer from the electrical power. Is this something KDE related or more in the OS direction? Does anyone know if there is anything I can do to overcome this without having to disconnect the computer all the time? Or is it just a thing I have to live with? would be nice to get some answers! thank you & best regards Steffen |
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This should not happen. Can you try and post the content of ~/.xsession-errors when Plasma starts crashing?
Simply press Alt+F2 and run "Konsole" then type "cp ~/.xsession-errors ~/errors-copy", run that, then close Konsole and force the machine to reboot as you normally do. Then post the contents of that file here.
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thank you for your answer!
I did like you advised, but this time the crash was not as severe as the ones before. It "only" crashed twice and rebuilt itself pretty good. Anyway, here is the content of the xsessions-errors file:
if this does not tell you enough (because it was not so bad as usual), please tell me. I´ll try to reproduce it then again. Thank you! regards Steffen |
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after I posted the above post, Plasma (now I know that it is Plasma) crashed again several times. But I still had a desktop. Seems like that I have disconnected the computer not long enough...
here is the content of another xsession-errors file:
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Unfortunately the crashes don't seem to include any reason as to why it is crashing. When the crash handler opens, can you please click "Developer Information" and post the resulting output here?
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hmm... now I don´t get crashes anymore... I have done now 6 reboots in a row (each with changing the OS) and also tried to get a bit of load onto the graphics card, but for now I haven´t had a Plasma crash.
Does maybe Plasma or the Linux graphics driver somehow adopt to this - what I think - remaining stuff in the memory of the graphics card? |
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The state of the graphics card should be cleared by the BIOS and Graphics Drivers as part of their initialisation procedures I would have thought. Remaining data should not have any effect in any case, as it would just be overwritten by the driver, as it does not know about it.
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hmm... it´s really strange. I don´t get any crashes anymore after booting Linux directly after shutting down windows....
But now the time in Linux is always wrong after startup, even though I have activated sync via NTP. This was different before as I have switched off the electrical power to the machine. Is there also something I can do? But anyway, if I get some crashes in the future I will post the content of the Crashhandler. Thank you very much for your help! |
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The clock of the machine is probably set to local time, rather than UTC. To correct this, open YaST > System > Date and Time. Untick "Hardware clock is set to UTC", and confirm.
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