Hi, On Sunday, 18 September 2016 03:33:15 BST Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Colin J Thomson wrote: > > The past day or so I have been trying the new PIM release only to find it > > will crash all the time, even sometimes on start-up with no interaction > > from me. > > > > I think it could be the Webkit + Nouveau crash bug which also stopped me > > using Qupzilla :-( > > Most likely, yes. Thanks for confirming my suspicions, > > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91632 > > > > https://bugreports.qt.io/browse/QTBUG-41242 > > It's unfortunate that this has been known for over a year and still no fix. > I also reassigned several ABRT crash reports to xorg-x11-drv-nouveau (there > are a few different backtraces, it's not just one bug) in Fedora and didn't > even get a reply. Yes, since posting and more investigating like you said this has been around quite a time sadly, > > Do any of you guys use Nouveau and this latest 16.08 PIM without crashes? > > > > I see good karma left for for this release on Bodhi which makes me think > > it is webkit/nouveau causing the issue and *not* PIM > > Right. > > A workaround is to start your kdepim apps with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 or > QT_XCB_FORCE_SOFTWARE_OPENGL=1 set, e.g.: > LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 kmail > or: > export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 > kmail OK, thanks, I did try this with mixed results and locking up of Kmail at times. So sadly I had to use the nV drivers from RPMfusion for the time being :-( Which confirms this was the issue, the plus side is I can use qupzilla again. I will run more tests with nouveau and your suggestions when I get some free time again. Sure hope it gets fixed soon so I can return to Nouveau. Colin -- Fedora 24 (Twenty Four) Registered Linux user number #342953 _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
