This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi, I'm just returning (home) to Debian after a fieldtrip with > Gentoo... I heard it should've been highly optimized, but what good is > that when it crashes all the time?! :) > > Sadly something is broken on my system... I kind of noticed late last > night that the GUI (in opera) started to act funny, ie buttons were > not depressed when clicked etc. I thought it might be some kind of > memleakage that would go away upon reboot... This morning when booting > into KDE as usual I get the desktop, but Kicker nor Kmail won't start. > > I am at loss here. I've logged on as root which works fine. Does > anyone have info on where to start debugging? Doing a 'dmesg' gives me > (only!) lots of > > "mtrr: no MTRR for f6ff5000,1000 found > mtrr: no MTRR for f6ff6000,1000 found" > > I'm running testing (sarge?) with kernel 2.5.44 to start with. I > really don't know what is relevant in this case so please ask for it > as needed. > > poed@xXx:~$ kicker > kicker: crashHandler called > ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! > poed@xXx:~$ ERROR: KUniqueApplication: DCOP communication error! > > Thanks in advance! > > Pontus
First off, I wouldn't expect a whole lot of stability running a development kernel (^: That being said, mtrr is: On Intel P6 family processors (Pentium Pro, Pentium II and later) the Memory Type Range Registers (MTRRs) may be used to control processor access to memory ranges. This is most useful when you have a video (VGA) card on a PCI or AGP bus. Enabling write-combining allows bus write transfers to be combined into a larger transfer before bursting over the PCI/AGP bus. This can increase performance of image write operations 2.5 times or more. see /usr/src/linux-2.4.19/Documentation/mtrr.text for more. Doesn't sound like what's causing your problems, though - this'll just give you better video frame rates. DCOP is the KDE server that allows apps to communicate with each other and the desktop environment. If that's experiencing communication failures, then that would be why your apps are having a hard time. I would suggest trying with a stable kernel - apt-get install one of the 2.4.x kernels optimized for your processor type and see howit goes. HTH, -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |Stephen Gran | The human race is a race of cowards; and I | |[EMAIL PROTECTED] | am not only marching in that procession but | |http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | carrying a banner. -- Mark Twain | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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