[NBLUG/talk] KDE problem

[Robert Hayes]

Thanks for your suggestions, guys.

I've tried moving ~/.kde out of the way,  and wiping out /tmp/ksocket-user 
and /tmp/kde-user. None of those seem to change the slow start up.

I think I'm going to have to write the output from strace to a text file from 
both the faulty user, and a working user and compare the two.

I'm sure I'll be posting back here with more information.


On Friday 29 October 2004 03:49 pm, troy wrote:
> 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
>
>
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