cbnathanael wrote: > I've been using KiCad for a few years, but for whatever reason, didn't check > for upgrades ^_^;; But, I love it! > > Anyhow, I just repaired my laptop, and installed Ubuntu 10.04, and am using > KDE 4.4. > > Now, pcbnew semi-randomly crashes X entirely -- kdm even has to restart. The > only error I was able to log was: > > pcbnew: Fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X server :0.0. > > and /var/logs/syslog only has > X server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly > > This occurs on three different versions of pcbnew: > *kicad-2010-05-05-BZR2356-stable-UBUNTU_9.10 > *20090216-final (via Ubuntu repositories) > *kicad-full-version-2008-08-25c-final (which is what is on my other system)
I'm running the same version on Debian Lenny - utterly stable. You might want to use a stable distribution for production work.. The other possibility is there is something about your recently repaired laptop - laptops are often running on the edge and valid software can case them to crash if it loads the hardware to the point of heating.. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Karl Schmidt EMail [email protected] Transtronics, Inc. WEB http://xtronics.com 3209 West 9th Street Ph (785) 841-3089 Lawrence, KS 66049 FAX (785) 841-0434 The only valid market survey is a signed purchase order. -- Jay Last --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
