i'd report this to bugs.kde.org but the crash handler tells me that the backtrace is no good. here's the deal: i'm runing multiple konsoles with the dark transparent schema. one on the right side of the screen is rather narrow and is on every desktop, while i have another one with multiple tabs spanning the rest of the screen on desktop 3 (i have 6). and occasionally, about twice a day in fact, konsole just blows up -- often when i'm not even using it. but only one of them blows up, and it's _always_ the bigger, multi-tabbed one on the left. this doesn't happen at home, where i keep my box running for days at a time, only here @work. here's the specs on my work box: System uname: 2.4.26_pre5-gentoo i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2500+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.3.13p1 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.2 CC="gcc" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" i'm running kde 3.2.1 with alsa on an asus board with an nvidia chipset and graphics card, and here's the backtrace if it's of any use to anyone: (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 0x414d89a8 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #0 0x414d89a8 in waitpid () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #1 0x40860614 in ?? () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #2 0x407a6eb0 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdecore.so.4 #3 0x414d7693 in __pthread_clock_settime () from /lib/libpthread.so.0 #4 <signal handler called> #5 0x404abb5c in KSharedPixmap::x11Event(_XEvent*) () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdeui.so.4 #6 0x40b3689c in QApplication::x11ProcessEvent(_XEvent*) (this=0xbffff110, event=0xbfffed60) at kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp:3336 #7 0x40b5446d in QEventLoop::processEvents(unsigned) (this=0x80ef978, flags=4) at kernel/qeventloop_x11.cpp:192 #8 0x40bcfb85 in QEventLoop::enterLoop() (this=0x80ef978) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:198 #9 0x40bcfa9e in QEventLoop::exec() (this=0x80ef978) at kernel/qeventloop.cpp:145 #10 0x40bb89db in QApplication::exec() (this=0xbffff110) at kernel/qapplication.cpp:2741 #11 0x41824431 in kdemain () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/libkdeinit_konsole.so #12 0x408a39b6 in kdeinitmain () from /usr/kde/3.2/lib/kde3/konsole.so #13 0x0804dc95 in ?? () #14 0x00000001 in ?? () #15 0x080601e8 in ?? () #16 0x00000001 in ?? () #17 0x08061ee8 in ?? () so if the backtrace is no good, how else can i help the kde folks fix this? or is this my bad somehow? -- faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning. - brother alwyn macomber, babylon 5 "the deconstruction of falling stars" ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.