Fedora 16 - Quite a lot of KDE stuff crashing

[Rex Dieter]

On 11/30/2011 10:03 AM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Christian González wrote:
>> Try running systemsettings (or any crashing app) like this:
>>
>> LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1 systemsettings
>
> Please note that:
> * this needs to be /usr/lib64 for a 64-bit installation and
> * this will effectively disable OpenGL acceleration, because the system
> libGL (which you're forcing here) cannot work with the proprietary driver.

I think this was only suggested as a way of confirming that the bug is 
indeed with nvidia's libGL (ie, if the crashes go away with LD_PRELOAD...)

(though I'm not convinced entirely if this workaround will help...)

-- rex