Fw: KDE 3.5 Crashing(Solved)

[Gemma Fletcher]

Thanks everyone for their help! Final result was my video card. I had a
 power surge a few weeks ago - and while I have a surge protector it stilled 
messed my card up a bit. So periodically the card would die and so would the 
system.

Pulled it out and used the onboard and problem solvered.

>> Hello Gemma,
>> Hello Nikola
>>
>>> Although it really looks like hardware, you can also do this to be 100%
>>> sure it isn't software related:
>>>
>>> (1) Had you used that computer before you have installed FreeBSD? It
>>>     would be a nice idea to post here the output of your 'dmesg'
>>>     or /var/log/messages.
>>
>> Yes it was running XP - will post output once I finalise this car sale 
>> and
>> have a spare moment. :)
>>
>>> (2) Have you tried to run a small script as Matthias proposed?
>>
>> Not yet - am reading up on how to run a script :)
>>
>>> (3) Are you sure your ports are up-to-date? If in doubt, install
>>>     ports-mgmt/portupgrade and run
>>>
>>>       # portversion -v -L =
>>
>> To cut a long scary story short sort of.  I've actually reinstalled 6.2, 
>> 4
>> times as I seem  to have so many little things missing I wasn't sure if 
>> it
>> was me or the install.  So upgrading ports always eneded up crashing.
>> Anyway first few times went the full install, final time went with as 
>> just a
>> user install without X.  After that i installed X and then KDE from the
>> ports collection. Attempted a 7.2 upgrade thinking that might help a few
>> problems and in a word - nightmare.  A week later after finally getting 
>> past
>> the libxfct step the actual upgrade crashed as it couldn't seem to create
>> the xorg-libraries 7.2 directory.  So I just decided to ignore it for a
>> while.  But aside from xorg - everything else is up to date.
>>
>>> (4) If yes, as of "how to check X without KDE", do the following:
>>>
>>>   (a) run 'xinit' without ~/.xinitrc file to avoid starting KDE and
>>>       or any other window manager; (once you start it, you can go back
>>>       by 'exit' or Ctrl+Alt+Backspace; please note that you must put the
>>>       mouse over the window in order to move focus on it);
>>>
>>>   (b) check if there are warning -- (WW) -- or other suspicious messages
>>>       in /var/log/Xorg.0.log;
>>>
>>>   (c) while in pure xinit session, run Firefox or other application that
>>>       is not KDE/Qt related;
>>>
>>>   (d) run Opera, Skype or similar app that is Qt- but not KDE-related;
>>>
>>>   (e) run KDE applications (Konqueror, KMail, etc.)
>>>
>>> and report one by one what happened, from (1) to (4e). Maybe it helps
>>> to isolate the problem, besides hardware tests :)
>>
>> Will try the above this arvo when i do the rest.
>>
>> Thanks heaps :)
>>> Nikola Lečić
>> Gemma
>>
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