KDE 3.2/Xwindows dying strangely without warning

Dragoncrest dragoncrest at voyager.net
Sun Apr 18 15:15:52 PDT 2004


         Nobody has any answers for me on this?

At 10:42 AM 4/17/04 -0400, Dragoncrest wrote:
>Ok, I can't contribute this to anything I've ever encountered or
>something that I'm doing, but it seems that after about 7-10 days KDE
>just dies on me.  No crash, no errors, no "I'm gonna shut down".
>Nothing.  I will be working along and then suddenly it's just not there.
>   It just goes away without a single bit of warning.  So I login under
>my user account at the console that's now staring at me and only the
>basic processes that should be running just after startup are there, but
>not a single Xwindows thing, or anything related to KDE.
>
>Even the logs show nothing.  No core dumps, no memory errors, not even
>an Xwindows shutting down message.  It's just like Xwindows and KDE were
>never running in the first place.  I can then restart KDE and it goes
>back to the same saved state from the last time kde was restarted as
>though nothing had happened.  I'm seriously baffled.  This just started
>about 2 weeks ago after my last reboot.  Anyone got any ideas?  None of
>my other boxes do this, so I'm lacking other systems to use as examples.
>  Any help is apreciated.
>
>Here's the apps I have running at the time it goes away/dies.
>
>BitTorrent
>Mozilla (for work related webpages)
>FireFox (for personal surfing)
>XMMS (playing)
>Knotes
>Klipper
>Krusader
>Kedit
>3 console windows
>Gaim
>Kmail
>
>That's it.  Nothing that I can think of that might destabalize KDE like
>this.  Thanks in advance for your help.
>
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