Created:
9th November, 2008

Please check for duplicates

Did Kubuntu or another popular distro just do an X upgrade or changed their drivers or something? Does nobody check for bug report duplicates anymore?

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[18:36:12] <bugbot> New kwin (general) bug 174604 filed by ____________@excilys.com.
[18:36:14] <bugbot> Bug http://bugs.kde.org/174604 crash, NOR, UNCONFIRMED, Kwin crashes at kde startup : signal 11
[06:45:24] <bugbot> New kwin (general) bug 174747 filed by ________@gmx.de.
[06:45:26] <bugbot> Bug http://bugs.kde.org/174747 crash, NOR, UNCONFIRMED, KWin SIGABRT on logout
[15:02:00] <bugbot> New kwin (general) bug 174765 filed by _________@gmail.com.
[15:02:02] <bugbot> Bug http://bugs.kde.org/174765 normal, NOR, UNCONFIRMED, kwin crashes on kde startup
[15:55:05] <bugbot> New kwin (general) bug 174766 filed by ______________@ifrance.com.
[15:55:07] <bugbot> Bug http://bugs.kde.org/174766 normal, NOR, UNCONFIRMED, kwin crashes at end of session
[16:08:11] <bugbot> New kwin (general) bug 174767 filed by ________@mail.ru.
[16:08:13] <bugbot> Bug http://bugs.kde.org/174767 normal, NOR, UNCONFIRMED, crashes when loggin into

For the love of your developers please check for duplicates before submitting new reports! Can’t I develop in peace? I think I might just block bugbot and the mailing list for the next 48 hours. I don’t think the next person that is going to post another duplicate about the same crashes is reading this right now… We haven’t even changed anything in KWin recently!

At least they are all submitting backtraces—without debugging symbols of course.

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10th November, 2008David Claughton

> At least they are all submitting backtraces

This suggests to me these bugs might all be submitted by the bug reporting tool that pops up when KWin crashes?

I had such a occurrance a couple of days ago (on Debian Lenny + KDE 4 from experimental). I hit cancel though, my PC’s a bit flaky anyway ;-)

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