KDE desktop locks up when closing certain windows

[gnufied]

Binary package hint: kdebase-plasma

I am currently running KDE 4.2.4 from (http://ppa.launchpad.net/kubuntu-ppa/ppa/ubuntu) on Inspiron 1520 (Nvidia 8400 M GS with latest driver 180.60) and I see frequent freezes/lockups when I close certain Windows like firefox with few tabs, Emacs or Konsole.

Mouse still keeps working, but KDE doesn't respond to any keyboard event except switching to console via Alt-Ctrl-F1..F6. After temporary pause of few seconds everything starts working again as usual (without restarting or anything of the sort).

I have faced this issue from KDE 4.1.3 and all versions of NVIDIA drivers. The problem doesn't occur when running Gnome. I had same problem with vanilla install of KDE 4.2.2 from stock Kubuntu as well.

I have tried filing bug reports with KDE people:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185671

Tried to file bug report with Nvidia:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=132220

The output of lspci is:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 0c)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 02)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801HEM (ICH8M) LPC Interface Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation GeForce 8400M GS (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
03:01.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev ff)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] Network Connection (rev 02)

Messages recorded in .xsession-errors is:
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/firefox
Xlib: extension "XFree86-Misc" missing on display ":0.0".
X Error: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) 10
  Major opcode: 2 (X_ChangeWindowAttributes)
  Resource id: 0x280005e
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/firefox
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 5
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/opera
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 13
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libjvm.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
ERROR: ld.so: object 'libawt.so' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.
QCoreApplication::postEvent: Unexpected null receiver
Object::connect: Attempt to bind non-signal TaskManager::TaskGroup::editRequest()
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/dolphin
"/usr/bin/dolphin(29618)" Error in thread 3048978176 : "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown - The name org.kde.nepomuk.services.nepomukstorage was not provided by any .service files"
"/usr/bin/dolphin(29618)" Error in thread 3048978176 : "QLocalSocket::connectToServer: Invalid name"
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
   **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table.
   **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused
   **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file.
   **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x01 0x00
Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x01 0x00
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x01 0x00
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/okular
opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot-gtk
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 4
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 21
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot-gtk
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 15
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 4
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/emacs-snapshot-gtk
Object::connect: Attempt to bind non-signal TaskManager::TaskGroup::editRequest()
Object::connect: Attempt to bind non-signal TaskManager::TaskGroup::editRequest()
kdeinit4: preparing to launch /usr/bin/konsole
QThread(ptr=0x9900508) RemoveTimeout: killing timer 20

I will attaching Xorg.0.log in the attachment. Its really very annoying problem and I couldn't find anything in dmesg or syslog. If required, I am willing to attach them as well.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

As upstream says, this is most likely a problem with the nvidia driver.

[gnufied (gethemant)]

May be or may be not. But isn't there anyone out there with similar chipset and graphics card who can reproduce this problem?

Also I guess its not specific to graphics card as well (might be specific to driver though), since I get similar problems on my office desktop which has "Nvidia 6200 turbo cache" GPU, although it happens somewhat rarely there.

But anyways, I do believe this report might be worthless to you guys since there is already an report with upstream as well as with nvidia people.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

I've posted a new version of the -nvidia driver to our xorg-edgers PPA,
would you mind testing it either on Jaunty or Karmic and see if it
resolves this bug?

Get nvidia-graphics-drivers-180 - 185.18.14 here:

  https://edge.launchpad.net/~xorg-edgers/+archive/ppa

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.