Howdy, I upgraded to the latest KDE a bit ago. I update about twice a week, depending on what is going on and what is released. Anyway, KDE has become just dead dog slow. Just to login takes a couple minutes. If I click to open a KDE app, it takes a long time. If I click on the kicker/panel thingy at the bottom, it takes forever, even clicking on the K menu takes a minute or more for the menu to pop up. Also, when it freezes, the clock stops as well. It seems something is hung up or something. I also noticed that klipper is missing as is kmix for the volume control in the kicker/panel thingy at the bottom. If I try to manually start them, I get nothing even if I wait for a good long while. Also, while in a Konsole, within KDE so note the K there, if I try to copy/paste something, it locks up Konsole tight as a drum. It has yet to ever come back. I can't even switch tabs. Also, while I generally click on the panel at the bottom to switch desktops, this doesn't work when it is froze or stuck. I can however use the function keys to switch.
When I login, the hard drive activity light on the case is very quiet. It is normally on solidly when I login since it is reading data but now it is pretty much dark all the time. What I have done so far. Renamed .kde4 and tried a new .kde4 directory. No change. I did a emerge -e world with, no change. I have also checked the CPU and memory with htop and it shows nothing outside the norm that I can see. I have also went to the boot runlevel. killed anything that shouldn't be there and then went back to default runlevel. This started yesterday. I did my usual update and logged out and back in since checkrestart showed several programs using old configs/programs etc. After that, it got real slow. The biggest update was qt and all its friends. Sort of hard to tell right now since I can't get Konsole to work right and I can't copy and paste either. lol I was going to try to downgrade KDE to the previous version, it appears to be gone now. I guess my only other option is to upgrade again with a version from a overlay. This is not something I want to do tho. Has anyone else ran into this? Anyone got any ideas on how to track it down? It's going to be a week before another upgrade and this is getting on my nerves. ;-) Thanks. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
