Running under gdb doesn't seem to catch the SEGV, perhaps because plasma forks and detaches from the parent process and/or kcrash is catching the signal?
(gdb) run [ lines omitted ] plasma(30010) NetworkManagerApplet::showVpn: SHOWING KCrash: Application 'plasma' crashing... plasma(29977): Communication problem with "plasma" , it probably crashed. Error message was: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" : " "Message did not receive a reply (timeout by message bus)" " Program exited with code 0377. (gdb) <unknown program name>(30044)/ checkComposite: Plasma has an argb visual 0x915aa10 81788929 <unknown program name>(30044)/ checkComposite: Plasma can use COMPOSITE for effects on 0x915a360 QLayout: Attempting to add QLayout "" to QWidget "", which already has a layout plasma(30046) Solid::Control::ManagerBasePrivate::loadBackend: Backend loaded: "NetworkManager 0.7" [ output continues ] I'll see if I can coerce gdb into attaching to the forked processes. -- [jaunty] plasma crashes on start with SIGSEGV https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338205 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs