kwin

"Tilo Renz" <[email protected]> Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:46:38 +0200
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Hello,

I have a problem with kwin in a kiosk environment: kwin terminates =
unexpected.
I already browsed the kde Changelog and this mailing-list, but didnt =
find something similar. I hope this is the right place for this kind of =
problem.

In case of error, the Phone-Support-Team tells us, no errors where =
shown, just the desktop isn't working any longer.
If we check the processlist on the faulty machine, no kwin-Process is =
found. Restarting kde solves the problem temporary.

Our Environment is a Opensuse 10.3-based Distribution deployed on about =
500 Machines, spread across the country.
kwin --version gives
Qt: 3.3.8
KDE: 3.5.7 "release 72.6"
KWin: 3.0

We have a stripped down Desktop Profile with kicker showing the taskbar =
and clockapplet, but without K-Menu. All needed Programs are started =
with Desktop-Links. Direct File Access-Actions etc. are disabled.

This error is hard to track, because it doesn't happen regularly and =
didn't show up in previous tests. We have systems running without =
problems for over 35 days. But the problem occurs on an average of 20 =
Systems per day. :-(

Our current workaround is a cron-Job checking the process Table for a =
running kwin, and eventually restarting kwin.
But as we plan to extend our deployment to some thousand hosts and also =
want to use them for several years, we prefer a solution over the =
workaround.

Here are my qestions:
- How can I gather more Information about the running (and probably =
stopping or stopped) kwin?=20
- Running inside gdb seems impossible, and I don't have physical access =
to the machines. How can I enable the creation of coredumps, if kwin =
crashes? (Althoug I'm not sure if it crashes or just terminates)
- Is there a possibility to turn on extended or debug-Level Logging? =
(Not on all machines, I hope a small subset will suffice to spot the =
error)
- Maybe the problem isn't a kwin-Problem, but general kde or =
kiosk-related. Suggestions?


thanks in advance,
Joey5337

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<P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Hello,<BR>
<BR>
I have a problem with kwin in a kiosk environment: kwin terminates =
unexpected.<BR>
I already browsed the kde Changelog and this mailing-list, but didnt =
find something similar. I hope this is the right place for this kind of =
problem.<BR>
<BR>
In case of error, the Phone-Support-Team tells us, no errors where =
shown, just the desktop isn't working any longer.<BR>
If we check the processlist on the faulty machine, no kwin-Process is =
found. Restarting kde solves the problem temporary.<BR>
<BR>
Our Environment is a Opensuse 10.3-based Distribution deployed on about =
500 Machines, spread across the country.<BR>
kwin --version gives<BR>
Qt: 3.3.8<BR>
KDE: 3.5.7 &quot;release 72.6&quot;<BR>
KWin: 3.0<BR>
<BR>
We have a stripped down Desktop Profile with kicker showing the taskbar =
and clockapplet, but without K-Menu. All needed Programs are started =
with Desktop-Links. Direct File Access-Actions etc. are disabled.<BR>
<BR>
This error is hard to track, because it doesn't happen regularly and =
didn't show up in previous tests. We have systems running without =
problems for over 35 days. But the problem occurs on an average of 20 =
Systems per day. :-(<BR>
<BR>
Our current workaround is a cron-Job checking the process Table for a =
running kwin, and eventually restarting kwin.<BR>
But as we plan to extend our deployment to some thousand hosts and also =
want to use them for several years, we prefer a solution over the =
workaround.<BR>
<BR>
Here are my qestions:<BR>
- How can I gather more Information about the running (and probably =
stopping or stopped) kwin?<BR>
- Running inside gdb seems impossible, and I don't have physical access =
to the machines. How can I enable the creation of coredumps, if kwin =
crashes? (Althoug I'm not sure if it crashes or just terminates)<BR>
- Is there a possibility to turn on extended or debug-Level Logging? =
(Not on all machines, I hope a small subset will suffice to spot the =
error)<BR>
- Maybe the problem isn't a kwin-Problem, but general kde or =
kiosk-related. Suggestions?<BR>
<BR>
<BR>
thanks in advance,<BR>
Joey5337<BR>
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