Description of problem: Roughly every second or third time I open LibreOffice calc (not so sure about writer), plasma crashes. This has been going on for quite a while, perhaps more than a month. I cannot say exactly when it started, somewhere around kde-4.10 or kde-4.11, likely the former. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kde-workspace-4.11.2-1.fc19.x86_64 libreoffice-core-4.1.2.2-1.fc19.x86_64 How reproducible: Open libreoffice-calc. Try it a few times, since it isn't every time, but very often, every 2-3 times or so. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Old behaviour: no plasma crashes. Additional info:
Can you provide any backtraces (from abrt or drkonqi or whatever)?
(In reply to Rex Dieter from comment #1) > Can you provide any backtraces (from abrt or drkonqi or whatever)? OK, next time it happens, I will save it. Do I need to install the debug packages? If so, which ones?
debuginfo is indeed required for a good backtrace, drkonqi/abrt should handle that part for you.
I was unable to cause a kwin
Created attachment 806824 [details] debuginfo The program stated that this report provides useful information (***).
Ignore comment 4. By the way, it is kwin that crashes. Anyway, I had a hard time causing for a crash, and then, when I wasn't expecting it, it happened. I used drkonqi (says Crash Reporting Assistant in titlebar). It downloaded 79 debuginfo packages and wanted some others from kde-redhat, that it couldn't find. I installed them manually while the other packages were downloading. Unfortunately, not all of them were in kde-redhat/testing, but I guessed and I must have gotten the correct ones; Just for your information, it wanted: kdelibs-debuginfo kde-workspace-debuginfo kde-workspace-libs-debuginfo (not found) libworkspace-debuginfo (not found) kdepimlibs-debuginfo kdepimlibs-akonadi-debuginfo (not found) kactivities-debuginfo ksysguard-libs-debuginfo (not found) nepomuk-core-libs-debuginfo (not found, but I installed nepomuk-core-debuginfo) So... I allowed drkonqi to run and, once it finished, it asked me to log in to bugzilla. I am guessing that it wanted to generate a new bug report, which seems pointless (I think), so I just saved the output. It appears as an attachment to this bug report. I just wanted to note some of the surrounding conditions: I had firefox opened at the same time (on a different virtual desktop) as I attempted to open libreoffice-calc by clicking on a file name in dolphin. Firefox was displaying only a blank page with the tiles. I am using desktop effects. I am using OpenGL 2.0 compositing, Qt native graphics. Enabled effects are: Zoom Dashboard Fade Highlight Window Kscreen Login Logout Maximize Minimize Animation Screen Edge Screenshot Slide Sliding Popups Translucency wobbly Windows Startup Feedback Dialog Parent Dim Screen for Administrator Mode Desktop Grid Present Windows There is nothing else I can think of.
may not be relevant, but I'd recommend using raster over native rendering (it is the upstream/recommmended default)
Anyway, my recommendation would be, when/if this crashes again, to allow drkonqi to file an upstream bug at this point
OK, I switched it to raster. I never changed it (maybe it got changed automatically when I experimented with OpenGL3 ?), so I am surprised it is the default.
I think I'll just do it manually, since it crashes numerous times a day anyway. I will just copy the debug output and link to this report. Non?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=325569
This is so old that I forgot about it. It clearly was the change to raster that solved it. I think there is no reason not to close this, as it was clearly the non-standard setting I had used that caused the problem.