[TriLUG] Upgrade to 7.2 - now KDE lockups

[Jeff Bollinger]

Yep I also have lots of problems with KDE.  Sometimes, I'll close a terminal
window and X itself will crash.  What's the best way to completely re-install
KDE?  There are so many packages that go with it, and using CVS can get pretty
ugly sometimes.

Jeff

Christian J Hedemark wrote:

> The only problem I am having with 7.2 is that I get occaisional machine
> lockups (hard lockups) when I am working at the console under KDE.  This has
> happened on other machines with Red Hat 7.1 and is now happening with 7.2.
> I have applied all available upgrade RPM's, and even got the KDE 2.2.2 RPM's
> directly from KDE.org.
>
> As long as I use the machine as a server it works great.  But I can't use
> the local console without fear of lockups (it locks up a lot more than my
> Windows 2000 machine).  In the past I've always seen this problem with KDE
> as well.  Do other people see frequent lockups with recent versions of KDE
> running on the console?
>
> The machine itself is running mostly pretty new hardware.  Duron 750, half
> gig of PC133 SDRAM, 16GB UDMA66 drive, 20GB UDMA66 drive, Matrox dual head
> video card, Netgear 10/100 PCI ethernet.  The only old piece of hardware is
> the sound card (SB16), which doesn't work anyway so I'm going to rip that
> out.  But I've seen these KDE lockups on other systems too that are totally
> different from this box.
>
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