jaunty: zombies after update

[Mark Greenwood]

On Sunday 01 March 2009 07:36:34 Ric Moore wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 21:56 -0500, Alan Dacey wrote:
> > Norberto Bensa wrote:
> > > Hello everyone,
> > > 
> > > Is anyone running Jaunty getting zombies after Friday update?
> > I just get crashes.  nepomukservices goes down all the time.  I'm going to do a 
> > fresh install of Alpha 5 and see if that changes.
> > -- 
> > Alan
> 

Are you using the nvidia driver? There's a big thread over on the nvidia forums about this. It seems to affect anything that runs in the system tray. I've found that starting KDE with an empty session is a workaround, and I've raised a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/335879

Mark

> Thanks to you guys for doing the beta testing! I used to use Fedora, so
> I know what a ride that is and you all are to be commended for going
> through the agonies. :) Ric
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