http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558950
http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=558950#c8
--- Comment #8 from Joseph Comfort 2010-08-13 18:26:29 UTC ---
I too had noticed the problem continuing in openSUSE 11.3. Thanks for noting
it before I commented.
Although it might seen that xterm is the culprit, I still have a very strong
suspicion that it is something in KDE, for the following reasons:
1) As noted in the original message, the problem started to occur after an
update of KDE rpms in 11.1.
2) Other applications, such as Firefox, Thunderbird, or even other running
things, are restored to where they were. While this might point to xterm, it
shows that there is good retention of information in KDE generally.
3) Significantly, 11.3 now has a new problem that appears to me to be related.
Often, when YaST2 is closed after software updates (or even just looking as
what is installed), there is a segmentation fault. Where does the core file
go? Not into the root (or $HOME) directory, but into the Documents directory.
I also now collect core files in my user Documents directory -- not sure of the
cause yet but seems related to logoffs (via ssh, perhaps). The point is that
'Documents' seems to be built into KDE somewhere. I have not found any place
to change it. I would at least prefer $HOME instead of Documents. (I recall a
similar message recently on the mailing list.)
I have been thinking of submitting this last issue to bugzilla, once I have had
time to clearly identify the circumstances and collect the error messages. In
fact, I submitted to as a bug for 11.2. It apparently got fixed, but is now
back again.
My reason for this message is that passing the issue on to xterm might be the
wrong way to go and could miss the real issue. It could just bounce around and
never get resolved. My intuition is still that it is more related to KDE than
to other things.
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