[Bug 338205] Re: [jaunty] plasma crashes on start with SIGSEGV

[James]

I updated via the intrepid PPA mentioned above and nothing changed. The system booted up and "Ubuntu" went into Failsafe low graphics mode.
I hit the OK button on "Please wait, the display will restart in a minute" (weird dialogue ?) and got to a shell prompt.

I tried moving aside my plasma* files in share/config but no change. I
changed the X driver from nvidia to nv and got a KDE session but of
course KDE without nvidia driver doesn't understand multiple screens so
I set the driver back to nvidia, with the nvidia twinview settings and
rebooted, same problem.

Weirdly after that when I logged in at the shell, x suddenly started
without me requesting it and I got a full KDE session back again, with
nvidia and twinview settings working.

I know that nvidia is binary driver but this worked fine pre 4.2.1

specs:
Kubuntu 8.10
nvidia geforce 8400M
twinview enabled, using nvidia glx driver (both 173, 177 and 180 show the problem)
screen 1: 1280x800 laptop panel
screen 2: 1680x1050 DFP via HDMI port.

Is it possible the fix only addresses single screen setups ?

attached a snipped dump of the .xsession-errors on initial boot up:


at the moment I am not shutting down my PC as I can't afford an hour a day booting my computer.

** Attachment added: "snipped.xsessionerrors.txt"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/24025512/snipped.xsessionerrors.txt

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[jaunty] plasma crashes on start with SIGSEGV
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/338205
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