Bug 20874

Summary:	Random ksmserver errors being reported
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	William Kenney <wilcal.int>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	KDE maintainers <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED MOVED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	bequimao.de, marja11, yvesbrungard
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	NEEDINFO
Source RPM:	plasma-workspace	CVE:
Status comment:
Attachments:	ksmserver error at login ksmserver error in Xfce

Description William Kenney 2017-05-16 18:53:50 CEST

Description of problem:

I'm seeing random ksmserver errors reported on all
the M6 Plasma platforms I am testing. Screen captures
attached. It's being reported in Login, Xfce and Plasma.
It also seems it kinda goes away after I've used the
install for awhile.

Comment 1 William Kenney 2017-05-16 18:54:38 CEST

Created attachment 9311 [details]
ksmserver error at login

Comment 2 William Kenney 2017-05-16 18:58:28 CEST

Created attachment 9312 [details]
ksmserver error in Xfce

David Walser 2017-05-16 21:52:28 CEST

Assignee: bugsquad => kde

Comment 3 Marja Van Waes 2017-05-16 22:00:44 CEST

What does

    plasma-workspace


return?

Whiteboard: (none) => NEEDINFO
CC: (none) => marja11
Source RPM: ksm-2.8.0-5.mga6.x86_64.rpm => plasma-workspace

Comment 4 Marja Van Waes 2017-05-17 07:48:41 CEST

oops, the question should have been

   rpm -qa plasma-workspace

Comment 5 William Kenney 2017-05-17 17:53:40 CEST

(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #4)

> oops, the question should have been
> 
>    rpm -qa plasma-workspace

In VirtualBox, M6, KDE, 64-bit

[root@localhost wilcal]# rpm -qa plasma-workspace
plasma-workspace-5.8.6-9.mga6

Ulrich Beckmann 2017-05-25 21:33:25 CEST

CC: (none) => bequimao.de

Comment 6 Ulrich Beckmann 2017-05-26 17:38:09 CEST

Could you add the cli output (as user) of

$ journalctl -ab | grep ksmserver

after the crash, and the same output after a normal successful login. So you might see what is missing.

I think that ksmserver as a Plasma session manager should not start at all in Xfce. I will have a look. I myself use Xfce only with a dedicated separate user, and never with my default Plasma user.

Ulrich

Comment 7 papoteur 2017-06-12 21:45:23 CEST

I encountered a ksmserver bug while typing a password in SDDM.
At the same time no password worked, in SDDM nor in TTY.

CC: (none) => yves.brungard_mageia

Comment 8 William Kenney 2017-06-13 23:32:50 CEST

Superseded by: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21082

Comment 9 William Kenney 2017-06-13 23:33:54 CEST

Superseded by: https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=21082

Resolution: (none) => MOVED
Status: NEW => RESOLVED