[Nix-dev] KDE is constantly crashing.

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

On Thu, 31 May 2012, Cillian de Róiste wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 8:47 PM,  <roconnor at theorem.ca> wrote:
>> Recently I've been constantly having KDE (kinit) segfault on me after a
>> few minutes of being on.  Is there anything I can do to stop this from
>> happening.  This is possibly due to upgrading KDE a few weeks ago.
>
> IIRC from the discussion on IRC, you hadn't yet tried to start KDE
> with a fresh user account. I seem to recall you also had some problems
> when upgrading from an earlier version of KDE but did manage to get
> around them without creating a fresh ~/.kde, does that sound right? I
> fear there is some old configuration in there still which is causing a
> problem, perhaps just pointing to an invalid path in the store. I have
> had some issues in the past when upgrading KDE which didn't occur with
> a fresh ~/.kde so I copied over my customisations to the fresh ~/.kde
> and everything has been fine since then. It would be a useful point of
> reference to know if you have tried this yet.

I started a guest account, and KDE crashes for it as well.

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