On Thursday 11 September 2025 06:29:29 Jonesy via tde-users wrote:
On Wed, 10 Sep 2025 02:28:25 +0000, dep via tde-users wrote:
Now on both my desktop machine and on the ThinkPad, when I start TDE about half the time everything starts just fine except for the desktop, which crashes. Anyone else encountering anything like this?
Ubuntu 24.04 TDE 14.1.4 Recently I've seen the desktop crash and restart successfully after being up and running for some time. It's occurred about once every 2-3 days.
Jonesy
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I have, actually, experienced that, although for a long time I have been blaming it on my in-house network, over which I have no control, which has used the same alphanumeric 8-digit password for at least ten years, and which I imagine is clogged full of free riders, snoops and script kiddies.
Every so often, my system totally freezes; uses to be every day for a while. Sometimes it freezes for only a minute or two; sometimes it has been for over an hour, but I didn't want to reboot because I had unfinished and unsaved work trapped there. Then, maybe three or four times over the past few months, sometimes the system just shuts down and restarts, no reason, so that I am back to my custom login screen.
Besides these anomalies, I also have tdenetworkmanager crash fairly often, but I just restart it. Usually it only crashes when not actually online. This may be related to what I just described above, or maybe not.
Then there is konqueror. Konqueror crashes rather a LOT nowadays, whenever I have external drives plugged in. Doesn't seem to matter what kind of drives, whether I use a USB dongle or extension or my powered 13-port USB hub; doesn't matter if I plug the drive directly into the laptop. Whenever I unmount a drive, chances are about even whether or not konqueror will also crash, which means I have to reconstruct my regular locations -- that is, the places in my system, or on external drives, where I spend most of my time.
So far I don't see any pattern in these. I thought maybe firejail was partly to blame, as I have been trying to make my system more secure by limiting access, etc. But that also doesn't seem to matter.
I assumed that these problems would get smoothed out with the newer releases, as I upgraded my system. This has happened in the past, so I decided to be patient.
In any case, I am in the midst of moving everything out of the city and away to Ultima Thule, or as close as I can get to that happy land, up among the redwoods and generally outside the bane of civilization. I don't have much time to spare tracking down bugs or other issues.
If anybody else has similar problems, I would be more inclined to take the trouble.
Bill
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