[Solved] pushing any key on keyboard crashes KDE

Question

I just did a -Syu, and therefore am running the latest Kernel, xorg server and KDE. I use nvidia. X loads up, KDE come up, music plays... I push any button on keyboard and *poof*, crash. I cannot get the keyboard or X or a command line back. I either ssh into it and reboot, or hit the hardware reset button.
This is the Xorg.0.log tail end
<snip>
(==) Mouse0: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50
(**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
(**) Mouse0: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4, 5, 6 and 7
(**) Mouse0: Buttons: 11
(**) Mouse0: Sensitivity: 1
(**) Option "CoreKeyboard"
(**) Keyboard0: always reports core events
(**) Option "Protocol" "standard"
(**) Keyboard0: Protocol: standard
(**) Option "AutoRepeat" "500 30"
(**) Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbRules: "xorg"
(**) Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbModel: "pc105"
(**) Option "XkbLayout" "us"
(**) Keyboard0: XkbLayout: "us"
(**) Option "CustomKeycodes" "off"
(**) Keyboard0: CustomKeycodes disabled
(II) evaluating device (Keyboard0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Keyboard0" (type: KEYBOARD)
(II) evaluating device (Mouse0)
(II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse0" (type: MOUSE)
(--) Mouse0: PnP-detected protocol: "ExplorerPS/2" 
(II) Mouse0: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x6a) [0x49b1da]
1: /lib/libc.so.6 [0x2ad04025d120]
2: /lib/libc.so.6(memcpy+0xd2) [0x2ad0402a3e02]
3: /usr/bin/X(XkbCopyKeymap+0x1712) [0x53cd12]
4: /usr/bin/X(SwitchCoreKeyboard+0x17b) [0x45ce0b] 
5: /usr/bin/X(mieqProcessInputEvents+0x16d) [0x4d652d]
6: /usr/bin/X(ProcessInputEvents+0x1c) [0x49b97c]
7: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x7d) [0x44d5ad]
8: /usr/bin/X(main+0x47d) [0x435fed]
9: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf4) [0x2ad04024a164]
10: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x281) [0x435329]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting
I do not have this problem if I use xfce4. Using the mouse in KDE works fine... until I push a keyboard button.
Thanks for any help and guidance.
Last edited by johnr (2008-03-18 14:30:23)

Answer 1

Same here,
I'm using kdemod (3.5.9-2), and Ati Rage Mobile M4 with the latest ati driver (6.8.0-2).
The relevant ouptut from startx:
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1c0008f
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1c0008f
X Error: BadWindow (invalid Window parameter) 3
Major opcode: 20
Minor opcode: 0
Resource id: 0x1c0008f
Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x7e) [0x80e053e]
1: [0xb7fbb420]
2: /usr/bin/X(SwitchCoreKeyboard+0x17c) [0x809c9cc]
3: /usr/bin/X(mieqProcessInputEvents+0x17c) [0x811bdcc]
4: /usr/bin/X(ProcessInputEvents+0x2c) [0x80e0dbc]
5: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x72) [0x808c6b2]
6: /usr/bin/X(main+0x48b) [0x8073e3b]
7: /lib/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe6) [0xb7d7d396]
8: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0x205) [0x80731b1]
Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11. Server aborting
kmix: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit: Fatal IO error: client killed
kdeinit: sending SIGHUP to children.
kwin: Fatal IO error: client killed
ksmserver: Fatal IO error: client killed
*** kdesktop got signal 1 (Exiting)
kicker: sighandler called
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 4823, errno = 11
xinit: connection to X server lost.
klauncher: Exiting on signal 1
klauncher: Fatal IO error: client killed
Aufgelegt
GOT SIGHUP
ICE default IO error handler doing an exit(), pid = 4857, errno = 11
kdeinit: sending SIGTERM to children.
kdeinit: Exit.
kded: Fatal IO error: client killed
kicker: sighandler called
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
DCOPClient::attachInternal. Attach failed Could not open network socket
ERROR: Couldn't attach to DCOP server!
startkde: Shutting down...
Warning: connect() failed: : No such file or directory
Error: Can't contact kdeinit!
startkde: Running shutdown scripts...
unset SSH_AUTH_SOCK;
unset SSH_AGENT_PID;
echo Agent pid 4783 killed;
xprop: unable to open display ':0'
usage: xprop [-options ...] [[format [dformat]] atom] ...
where options include:
-grammar print out full grammar for command line
-display host:dpy the X server to contact
-id id resource id of window to examine
-name name name of window to examine
-font name name of font to examine
-remove propname remove a property
-set propname value set a property to a given value
-root examine the root window
-len n display at most n bytes of any property
-notype do not display the type field
-fs filename where to look for formats for properties
-frame don't ignore window manager frames
-f propname format [dformat] formats to use for property of given name
-spy examine window properties forever
startkde: Done.
/var/log/messages does only say this
X[4822]: segfault at 6b636f48 eip b7d9eb05 esp bfd6ac00 error 4
Greetings Maurice