A Fatal Error Occurred

Wed Oct 8 10:12:00 UTC 2008

On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:06:10 -0700, Alex Makhlin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I am running Fedora 9 / KDE 4.1 and after reboot I received this error 
> when logging onto my main user "A Fatal Error Occurred" "The application 
> Plasma Workspace (Plasma) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEGV). 
> The root user is fine as well as other users but why the main one?  I 
> backed up all my personal files and deleted my main user. Then I 
> recreated it and reconfigured it to my personal settings and everything 
> is fine. Anyone know why this happened? I didn't do anything but yet it 
> crashed!

If you can reproduce it, try to capture a stacktrace,
[ https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces ]
and submit a bug report. A segmentation fault can have many
reasons, such as a simple bug or unsafe programming where
unexpected/unchecked data cause the program to crash.