[opensuse-amd64] KDE panel (kicker) crash

I just installed opensuse 10.2 on my Asus K8V-X SE with AMD Athlon 1800 running at 1533 MHz, 768MB, 120G hard drive. I have my drive partitioned with 2G swap, 2G /var, 20G /, and 87G /home. Usually I only burn CD1, abort the installation, and finish installation with the DVD iso in my home directory. This time, CD1 corrupted my grub, so I had to use another computer to burn the other two CD's and reinstall. Things seemed to go well until I logged onto the system after installation, whereupon the crash dialog box came up saying the front panel (kicker) had crashed with a signal 8, and I should notify the appropriate people of a possible bug in the application. All the KDE window manager stuff seems to have disappearted, but X runs fine, and I had a kterm running already, from which I can start, for instance, Konqueror, Firebird, and Thunderbird (which I'm using for this email). I have no application menu, and only the initial basic icons on the single desktop that seems to have survived the crash. I saved the detailed message tab text, and it's attached, in case it can help. How can I get KDE back up again? -- John Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org

* John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net> [12-17-06 21:14]:
I saved the detailed message tab text, and it's attached, in case it can help. How can I get KDE back up again?
you can restart kicker, <alt><f2><kicker> or from an xterm, 'kicker'. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org HOG # US1244711 Photo Album: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/gallery2 OpenSUSE Linux http://en.opensuse.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org

Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net> [12-17-06 21:14]:
I saved the detailed message tab text, and it's attached, in case it can help. How can I get KDE back up again?
you can restart kicker, <alt><f2><kicker> or from an xterm, 'kicker'.
Thanks, Patrick, that got my KDE back up -- at least for now. No idea what the problem might be? It's consistent: I rebooted a couple of times with the same result before I started experimenting with kterm and found I could still use the system. But I really would like to get it all back reliably, so I can convert my /home partition from Reiser to ext3 and have it all together. I only have a cdrom on this machine, and 20G of stuff I'd like to transfer to my other machine before I try converting. -- John Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 17 December 2006 22:18, you wrote: have you checked to see if there are any errors or warnings in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log? what about /var/log/kdm.log?
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* John E. Perry <j.e.perry@cox.net> [12-17-06 21:14]:
I saved the detailed message tab text, and it's attached, in case it can help. How can I get KDE back up again?
you can restart kicker, <alt><f2><kicker> or from an xterm, 'kicker'.
Thanks, Patrick, that got my KDE back up -- at least for now. No idea what the problem might be? It's consistent: I rebooted a couple of times with the same result before I started experimenting with kterm and found I could still use the system.
But I really would like to get it all back reliably, so I can convert my /home partition from Reiser to ext3 and have it all together. I only have a cdrom on this machine, and 20G of stuff I'd like to transfer to my other machine before I try converting.
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John E. Perry
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Patrick Shanahan
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Tom Corr