KDE-Session crashes when configuring positions of multiple monitors
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kde-workspace (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I'm running Kubuntu 14.04 Beta2 on my Asus Zenbook UX32VD, which has an HDMI and an VGA output.
Most often when I try to configure the position of multiple monitors (by using the gui-tool `kcmshell4 kcm_kscreen`) the KDE-Session crashes with this error message:
"Could not start ksmserver. Check your installation."
It then takes a few reboots (as in more than 2 most of the times) to be able to login into a KDE Session with my user again, because it crashes again instantly when login in after such a crash. (Is there some config file I can edit/remove to work around this problem?
I've run into this problem about 5 or 6 times already, and I've never achieved a working setup where the multiple screens where interpreted as having a different y-position (in height, like for example above each other) but I also managed to get the same crash without y-position variations, by simply changing the x-position order (conrcrete from {default}[internal - hdmi - vga] to [vga - internal - hdmi] made KDE crash, while changing to [internal - vga - hdmi] worked.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: plasma-desktop 4:4.11.8-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-23-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: KDE
Date: Sat Apr 12 08:23:53 2014
InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-04-05 (6 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Beta amd64 (20140326.2)
SourcePackage: kde-workspace
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
<-- my system is up to date, I've installed quite a few upgrades since my installation 6 days ago. I guess there's something wrong with this upgrade-log detection thingy..
summary: |
- KDE-Session crashes and shows "Could not start ksmserver. Check your - installation." When configuring multiple monitors above each other + KDE-Session crashes when configuring positions of multiple monitors |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.