Qtcurve-->Configure Aqua Apply then Curve Apply causes plasma desktop crash RC2

[Romanator]

Qtcurve crashes kwin and a host of other programs when changing presets while using qtcurve.

KDE SC 4.6

I need more people to help out. Please install qtcurve and then try the following steps to confirm if this is on 32-bit and 64-bit.

My Results with GeForce 8600 GTS
Driver: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.29.run

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Select Configure Desktop --> Application Appearance
2. Select Qtcurve -->Configure--> Aqua OK and Apply buttons
3. Select Qtcurve -->Configure--> Curve OK and Apply buttons
4. Plasma desktop crashes

Please see Bugzilla link:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675651



Cheers!

Romanator

[eng-int]

I have tried, but cannot replicate this.

Three machines. Clean KDE installs of RC2.1 from the x86_64 DVD. Added qtcurve-kde, then followed your recipe. Then installed kernel-desktop-2.6.38-rc6 from Kernek:HEAD and repeated. Still no Plasma crash.

AMD 950e, 8GiB, integrated NVIDIA GeForce 8200
Intel Atom 330, 2GiB, integrated NVIDIA Ion
Intel SU4100, 4GiB, ATI Mobility Radeon HD4330 (this also has switchable Intel graphics, but I cannot get it to work)

There is no non-Free software on any of these installs -- I am testing for work, not home use. Have you tried this without the proprietory graphics driver? Perhaps the problem is with NVIDIA rather than openSuSE or KDE?

[Romanator]

Could be Nvidia. I'll uninstall the Nvidia frivers and see what happens.

[Lord_Emsworth]

You probably mean "Agua" and not "Aqua." But still it totally crashes stuff.

[Lord_Emsworth]

You probably mean "Agua" and not "Aqua." But still it totally crashes stuff.

Sorry for the short reply, but my keyboard yielded up the ghost.

After changing to Agua and applying lots of processes crashed. Firefox was not one of them though.

Anyway:

- KDE SC 4.6.0
- openSUSE 11.3; 64-bit
- QtCurve 1.8.4

- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6100; onboard
- Drivers: NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-270.29.run

[Romanator]

Thank you for replying. I thought I was seeing things. The problem also exists on openSUSE RC2.

You're right the name is Agua not Aqua.

So, I uninstalled the Nvidia driver, set up Nouveau and I'm still getting about 55 windows pop up.
Various programs from akonadi to kwin to kdeinit to neponuk. And I'm running 64-bit.

I'm going to reinstall again. Any one else out there using an Nvidia card experiencing this bug?

[Lord_Emsworth]

Thank you for replying. I thought I was seeing things. The problem also exists on openSUSE RC2.

You're right the name is Agua not Aqua.

So, I uninstalled the Nvidia driver, set up Nouveau and I'm still getting about 55 windows pop up.
Various programs from akonadi to kwin to kdeinit to neponuk. And I'm running 64-bit.

I'm going to reinstall again. Any one else out there using an Nvidia card experiencing this bug?

I am not sure this has anything got to do with Agua or QtCurve itself. I have meanwhile experience similar mis-behaviour when switching to other QtCurve configs, or totally different Styles, e.g. Plastique.

[Lord_Emsworth]

I downgraded the NVIDIA drivers from 270.29 (installed the hard way) to NVIDIA 260.19.36 from the repositories. So that now my configuration is as follows:

- KDE SC 4.6.0
- openSUSE 11.3; 64-bit
- QtCurve 1.8.4

- GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 6100; onboard
- Drivers: NVIDIA 260.19.36


It is the same story as it was before. Lots of crashes. But now I have collected crash-information, some of which is flagged as "may be useful" and some flagged as "is useful".


I only have no real idea where to best put this info.

[Romanator]

I have created a Bugzilla report. If you haven't created an account, create one so that you can add comments and submit files.

One you have created an account, please add your comments to my bug report.

Please see Bugzilla link:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675651


Btw I have checked kde.org and there appears to be a fix coming in 4.6.1.

[Lord_Emsworth]

I have created a Bugzilla report. If you haven't created an account, create one so that you can add comments and submit files.

One you have created an account, please add your comments to my bug report.

Please see Bugzilla link:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=675651

OK, done. I hope it is not too noobish.

Btw I have checked kde.org and there appears to be a fix coming in 4.6.1.

That sound good.