Bug 461848

Summary:	KDE 4.1 won't start (Plasma segfault)
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Victor Lorenz <victor.lz>
Component:	kdebase-workspace	Assignee:	Than Ngo <than>
Status:	CLOSED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	9	CC:	bughunt, fedora, kevin, ljhouwang, ltinkl, rdieter, tuxbrewr
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Description Victor Lorenz 2008-09-10 21:56:07 UTC

Description of problem:
After today's update on start up of KDE  get error msg

"Plasma Workspace - The KDE crash handler - A Fatal error occurred.
The application plasma workspace (Plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 CSIGSEG"

Then get blue screen and no response.
Gnome works OK

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

KDE 4.1
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Comment 1 Kevin Kofler 2008-09-10 22:00:32 UTC

That's strange because it works for me and many others on F9 x86_64.

Comment 2 Victor Lorenz 2008-09-11 00:03:22 UTC

Googled the issue amd found that identical problem happened with Kubuntu e.g.
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3096602.0

Perhaps, unwisely, I tried what I thought might be same solution i.e delete./kde (maybe should have deleted .kde/share/kde4).  KDE 4.1 now opens but obviously did some, but surprising little, damage, mainly to kmail. Can copy some stuff from .kde.BAK but obviously this is not optimal solution to problem.

Comment 3 LJ 2008-09-12 10:57:11 UTC

I had exactly the same problem after the update of Sept. 10.

Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2008-09-12 13:18:37 UTC

Please report crashes,segfaults upstream to bugs.kde.org.  They're the ones best equipped to address such issues.  (When/if you do, please let us know)

Comment 5 Victor Lorenz 2008-09-12 15:06:50 UTC

Issue has already been reported to bugs.kde.org: KDE bug 170856

Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2008-09-12 15:15:30 UTC

thx!

Comment 7 Steven M. Parrish 2008-09-13 22:13:45 UTC

Thanks for reporting upstream..

We will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration in future updates.

Thank you for the bug report.

Comment 8 Kevin Kofler 2008-09-16 15:29:42 UTC

*** Bug 462448 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***