Work and other commitments have prevented me from following this up for
the past month, but I still have this problem, I've been making do with
XFCE for the past month.
To re-cap, I have 3 PC's (Desktop, Laptop and Media Centre) running
Mageia Linux and Trinity. All three were upgraded from Mageia 5 to 6 in
August. All 3 ran Trinity perfectly on Mageia 5. After the upgrade to 6,
Trinity continues to run perfectly on my Laptop and Media Centre, but
now crashes on login running on my desktop. The KSMserver crashes, but
the desktop drops back to the login screen before I can get the full
debug message out of it.
At the time of my last post, I'd done the following tests:
- Clean install of Magiea 6, using Nvidia driver, crashes.
- Clean install of Magiea 6, using Nouveau driver, crashes.
- Clean install of Magiea 6, using framebuffer driver, crashes.
If I login using XFCE and try to run
starttde, then I get same behaviour and again, the crash handler
vanishes before I can get at anything useful. I see the following at the
command prompt:
[starttde] Starting starttde.
[starttde] This script is /opt/trinity/bin/starttde
[starttde] TDE version is R14.0.4
[starttde] TDE base directory is /opt/trinity
[starttde] TDEHOME is not set.
[starttde] Set TDEHOME to /home/timw/.trinity.
[starttde] Setting TDEROOTHOME to /root/.trinity.
[starttde] XDG_DATA_DIRS: /opt/trinity/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
Start gpg-agent
gpg-agent[18838]: /home/timw/.gnupg/gpg-agent.conf:4: obsolete option
"use-standard-socket" - it has no effect
gpg-agent: a gpg-agent is already running - not starting a new one
End start gpg-agent
[starttde] TDEDIR: /opt/trinity
[starttde] TDEDIRS:
[starttde] Starting Trinity...
[starttde] Trinity hardware control dbus daemon running.
[tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running...
[dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
[starttde] TDE_FULL_SESSION: true
[starttde] TDE_SESSION_UID: 500
[tdeinit] Shutting down running client.
---------------------------------
[dcopserver] It looks like dcopserver is already running. If you are sure
that it is not already running, remove /home/timw/.DCOPserver_baa.sheep__0
and start dcopserver again.
---------------------------------
[kded] Daemon (kded) is already running.
[tdebuildsycoca] tdebuildsycoca running...
[tdebuildsycoca] Reusing existing tdesycoca.
tdeio (KService*): WARNING: Invalid Service : khtmlimage.desktop
[dcopserver] DCOP Cleaning up dead connections.
[starttde] tdeinit started successfully.
[kcrash] TDECrash: Application 'ksmserver' crashing...
[starttde] Shutting down Trinity...
[tdelauncher] Exiting on signal 1
[starttde] Running Trinity shutdown scripts...
[starttde] Running /home/timw/.trinity/shutdown/stop-gpg-agent.sh.
Stop ssh-agent
unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
unset SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 18843 killed;
Finish stop ssh-agent
[starttde] Trinity shutdown complete.
For reference, running ksmserver with gdb (having logged in with XFCE)
gives the following, which may or may not be relevant:
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff4c196a0 in TQString::TQString(TQString const&) ()
from /lib64/libtqt-mt.so.3
Since my last post, I have also done the following:
- a clean install of Fedorea 26, using Nvidia driver, Trinity runs OK on
this set up
- Unpluging all my add on cards and USB devices (except essentials), to
no avail.
- Recompiled the relevant rpm which contains the ksmserver just in case
there was an issue on the build host.
Also, most Trinity programmes run just fine when started under XFCE.
So I'm now at a real loss to understand why Trinity crashes on one of my
computers using one particular distro version and is OK in all other
circumstances. My assumption is that it might be a combination of a
library issue and the fact that it's the only one of my PC's with an AMD
chip. However I'm now at a bit of an impasse if this can't be fixed
soon, since it means that either I need to change distros (with no
certainty that the offending library bug won't get incorporated into the
next Fedora release) or switch to a new desktop.
Is there anyway I can get a more meaningful error message out of this? I
am a software engineer by profession, but C/C++ isn't one of my many
languages so I only have a basic understanding of it. However, I'd
settle for a simple bodge which allows ksmserver to get past whatever is
causing the crash so that the desktop starts up, even if there are some
knock on effects (as long as they aren't too severe).
All help much appreciated!
Tim W
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