background plasma crash

2013-12-20 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
Hi, I am using KDE-4.10.2 with linux from scratch 8.4, self compiled. When I try to change a picture background plasma ( default desktop settings ) I get a crash and an automatic restart with the previous background setting. This happens on three units ( PC's, Laptop ). However, it does not ha

Re: background plasma crash

2013-12-20 Thread Martin Graesslin
Hi Edgar, thanks for your mail. Please be aware that we use bugzilla for managing bugs. It doesn't scale if everybody sends his questions to the mailing list. In your case I must point out that there are minor release updates to 4.10 and also a major release update to 4.11. Please try at least

Re: background plasma crash

2013-12-20 Thread Thomas Lübking
and don't forget to attach a backtrace to the bug in case you want to know whether it's related or have it fixed ;-) 2013/12/20, Martin Graesslin : > Hi Edgar, > > thanks for your mail. Please be aware that we use bugzilla for managing > bugs. > It doesn't scale if everybody sends his questions to

Re: background plasma crash

2013-12-22 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Friday 20 December 2013 15:54:04 you wrote: > Please try at least the latest version before > asking for a patch. -- Hi Martin, I follow your hint and I upgraded KDE to 4.11.2, according to the BLFS book. This means, I rebuilt every KDE program as well as the dependencies which were not acc

Re: background plasma crash

2013-12-22 Thread Thomas Lübking
the linked issue is dead old - it's more likely that you're using an abi "incompatible" decoration plugin (qtcurve? any 3rd party one, though) since debian/ubuntu has (had?) falsepositive abi management. however and once more: you got a crash -> you show the backtrace, since otherwise this is all