https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734629 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=734629#c0 Summary: kde system settings - crashed, cannot restart Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 12.1 Version: Final Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: KDE4 Workspace AssignedTo: kde-maintainers@suse.de ReportedBy: jnelson-suse@jamponi.net QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: --- Blocker: --- User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0 system settings crashed (the following message is all I saw in ~/.Xsession-errors): *** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/systemsettings: corrupted double-linked list: 0x0000000000c62ed0 *** Once it crashed, it could not be restarted. At all. Systemd problem? dbus problem? The following is a partial strace: 48}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC}, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 262 [pid 3318] recvmsg(3, 0x7ffffd7a6420, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) [pid 3318] sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(2)=[{"l\1\0\1\33\0\0\0\2\0\0\0\177\0\0\0\1\1o\0\25\0\0\0/org/fre"..., 144}, {"\26\0\0\0org.kde.systemsettings\0", 27}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 171 [pid 3318] poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, 25000) = 1 ([{fd=3, revents=POLLIN}]) [pid 3318] recvmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"l\2\1\1\4\0\0\0\3\0\0\0=\0\0\0\6\1s\0\6\0\0\0:1.470\0\0"..., 2048}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC}, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = 84 [pid 3318] recvmsg(3, 0x7ffffd7a6090, MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC) = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable) [pid 3318] sendmsg(3, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(2)=[{"l\1\0\1\35\0\0\0\3\0\0\0\212\0\0\0\1\1o\0\20\0\0\0/MainApp"..., 160}, {"\0\0\0\0\25\0\0\0\0\0\0\r/home/jnelson\0\0\0\0", 29}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, MSG_NOSIGNAL) = 189 [pid 3318] poll([{fd=3, events=POLLIN}], 1, -1 [pid 3319] exit_group(0) = ? Process 3319 detached <... poll resumed> ) = ? ERESTART_RESTARTBLOCK (To be restarted) --- {si_signo=SIGCHLD, si_code=CLD_EXITED, si_pid=3319, si_status=0, si_utime=0, si_stime=0} (Child exited) --- restart_syscall(<... resuming interrupted call ...> and there it sits. No feedback, nothing. If you check the process table, there are multiple 'Zombie' systemsettings processes. Something is not reaping them properly. Killing them off allows one to start systemsettings again. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.