[ltp] KDE crashes but not Gnome after suspend - solved... kin d of.

[René Castberg]

Kinda late, but thought i should mention that i had a similar problem, i
also noticed that if i killed artsd kde crashed and the panels
disappeared. It just occurred to me that when i suspend my laptop i
unload the alsa drivers, which may cause artsd to stop and in turn crash
kde. 
This last bit is just speculation and i haven't tried debugging this
anymore since at the moment i don't have time.

Rene

On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 14:36, Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T) wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ivarsson, Torbjorn (T) [mailto:tivarsson@lucent.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:10 PM
> > 
> > To continue my story...
> > 
> > Whenever I suspend/resume KDE using APM, KDE crashes in a 
> > relatively reproducible fashion. The first time I 
> > suspend/resume everything works fine. The second time I 
> > suspend/resume I get the crash. When I do the second suspend 
> > the Konsole get a bunch of enters (newlines - I can see them 
> > before the computer suspends), and the screensaver password 
> > box pops up. Then everything goes black :) When I try to 
> > resume after the second suspend screen either goes black with 
> > a white line on the top, or I only see the bottom half of my 
> > desktop - the mouse works, but the system is responseless.
> 
> So I spent the weekend troubleshooting MDK10Community for a fix. I tried everything except removing the Radeon driver. Instead I got fed up, threw away Mandrake, and installed Debian (Sarge/Testing) instead. Yeah, it's kind of cheating, but after noticing that Knoppix 3.3 suspend/resume just fine I wanted to give it a try.
> 
> Sweet relief. Now it works. Debian kernel 2.6.3-1-386, with APM, no ACPI, no APIC. Direct rendering is not currently activated, but that's Ok. I'll work on that later. Perhaps DRI was the culprit the whole time...
> 
> Anyway, I can finally rest. This problem has bugged me for a loooong time. Well, there are more things to work on in Debian...
> 
> 
> This leads me to two questions. They are a little bit off-topic, so skip them if you like:
> 
> Installing Debian was an interesting experience. The problem I had was that after the reboot and CD-eject during the installation process, the CD-rom got un-mounted. This lead to problems when I came to the "configure apt" and "install packages" parts of the installation process. The installation seemed to freeze.
> What I did was to press ctrl-c and then an enter to get back to the "installation menu". Then I could open a shell, mount the CD-rom, and continue with apt-configuration or package-installation.
> 
> Question: Is this normal, or should I report it as a bug to the Debian team?
> 
> Then I tried to recompile the kernel (2.6.4). Compilation went fine, but when I try to install the new kernel package mkinitrd fails and asks for ide_disk. The only file I can find is ide-disk.
> 
> Question: How can I make my custom kernel with initrd to successfully install?
> 
> Thanks,
> T.