[NBLUG/talk] KDE problem

[troy]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 03:18:40PM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> Something happened after my last apt-get upgrade about a week ago (at
> least I think it's related to the upgrade).
> 
> I'm running Debian 3.0, and Enlightenment.
>
> When I start any KDE app (konqueror, kmail) the CPU runs up to 100%
> and the app takes 5 to 15 seconds to launch. This happens regardless
> of the window manager used.
> 
> If I launch KDE, it takes an age to launch the desktop, then each app
> takes forever. 
> 
> Here's the odd part: It only happens for my user account. Root and one
> other account still work properly.
> 
> I've run strace, but don't understand what I'm seeing. All I know is
> that if I run 'strace kdeinit' it takes much longer under my user
> account than any other.

The first thing I do when KDE (or it's apps) start acting up is wipe out
/tmp/ksocket-user and /tmp/kde-user

Try moving the ~/.kde dir out of the way.  If there are specific
applications whose settings you don't want to have to re-create, copy
them individually out of .kde/share/apps into the fresh .kde dir.

I'm also having a problem where kde apps take 20 seconds+ to open a
files, but only on a mounted samba share.  Command-line and other
applications are as fast as usual.  I did some strace'ing as well and
the apps pause while doing: fcntl64(128, 0x402 /* F_??? */, 0x8000001c)
= -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)

No clue what that means but I'm hoping kde 3.3.1 fixes this up.

This problem is not specific to my user, and other kde stuff is fine
here.


-troy