J. Roeleveld wrote: > On 20 May 2020 17:56:29 CEST, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >> J. Roeleveld wrote: >>> Dale, >>> >>> The few times I have issues with "sddm-helper" is when I resume my >> laptop from >>> hibernate. (Not always, but occasionally) >>> The issue I see is 100% CPU-usage and a black X-display. I can switch >> to >>> console (CTRL+ALT+F1), login as root and kill the offending >> sddm-helper. >>> It gets restarted automatically and I see no issue. >>> >>> Do you tend to lock your screen a lot? As it might be related to >> screensavers. >>> (I have a simple static lock-screen, nothing remotely fancy) >>> >>> Also, you can try killing "kill -9 sddm-helper" when it goes up and >> see what >>> happens next. >>> >>> Is there anything in the sddm-logs? >>> Mine, for some reason, writes to /var/log/sddm.log >>> >>> Do you have anything special in your Xsession files and/or profiles >> (incl. >>> bash_profile and bashrc) that is non-default? >>> >>> Which login-theme do you use? >>> >>> -- >>> Joost >> Well, I didn't know I could kill that thing. I been logging out and >> back in which annoys the stuffing out of me. I have to close three >> browsers, several file managers plus whatever else I am doing before I >> can logout. Then I have to reopen all that when I log back in. On top >> of that, I have to wait for a download to stop as well. Yea, it's >> annoying, putting it mildly. lol I thought if I killed it, it would >> take the whole GUI thingy with it . Since it is still chewing away, >> makes me think about the Pacman days, I'll kill that thing in a few >> minutes, after closing important stuff first just in case. >> >> I got the last several lines of sddm.log. Here it is complete with a >> WW >> in there, about three lines from the bottom. >> >> >> [01:32:50.474] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully >> [01:32:50.499] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Connect >> [01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login >> [01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Reading from >> "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" >> [01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Reading from >> "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" >> [01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Session >> "/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" selected, command: >> "/usr/bin/startplasma-x11" >> [01:32:57.948] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting... >> [01:32:57.948] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating... >> [01:32:57.991] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse... >> [01:32:57.991] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages >> [01:32:57.997] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning. >> [01:32:58.016] (II) DAEMON: Authenticated successfully >> [01:32:58.152] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Closing session >> [01:32:58.153] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended. >> [01:32:58.153] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully >> [01:32:58.153] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped. >> [01:32:58.225] (II) HELPER: Starting: "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession >> \"/usr/bin/startplasma-x11\"" >> [01:32:58.225] (WW) HELPER: Could not open stderr to >> "/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log" >> [01:32:58.225] (II) HELPER: Adding cookie to "/home/dale/.Xauthority" >> [01:32:58.245] (II) DAEMON: Session started >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> >> So off I go to check into that file. I get this and change permissions >> for the second ls. >> >> >> root@fireball / # tail /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >> root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >> -rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 4 2019 >> /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >> root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >> -rw------- 1 dale users 0 Mar 4 2019 >> /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> As you can see, the first time it was owned by root, and is empty, >> which >> I bet requires it to be dale:user so I changed it. I bet it is >> building >> a log and keeping it in memory because it can't access the file to >> write >> it. I'm going to logout and see what it does. I'll finish when I get >> back. :-D >> >> OK. Logged back in and now I get this in the sddm.log. >> >> >> [10:45:28.213] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting... >> [10:45:28.213] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating... >> [10:45:28.253] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse... >> [10:45:28.253] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages >> [10:45:28.259] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning. >> [10:45:28.287] (II) DAEMON: Authenticated successfully >> [10:45:28.391] (II) HELPER: Starting: "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession >> \"/usr/bin/startplasma-x11\"" >> [10:45:28.393] (II) HELPER: Adding cookie to "/home/dale/.Xauthority" >> [10:45:28.400] (II) DAEMON: Session started >> [10:45:28.416] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Closing session >> [10:45:28.417] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended. >> [10:45:28.418] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully >> [10:45:28.418] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped. >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> I don't see any WW lines there. If I scroll up I can see the original >> I >> posted above but no WW since. Can we all say a prayer now???? >> >> I bet when I switched to sddm, it didn't change the permissions like it >> should and that threw a wrench in the gears. I'll know for sure in a >> few hours. It chewed through memory real fast after the last login. >> Within just a very few hours, it was over 4GBs. It seems to stop >> itself >> around that number tho. I'm not sure what to think about that tho. >> >> I'll post back in a bit. Give it time to eat some Pacman dots. I >> think >> you got it tho. I really hope that was it. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> P. S. Made eye Doctor appt today. Maybe this old goat will see better >> in a couple months when new glasses come in. O_O > Really quick as on mobile. > Killing "sddm-helper" doesn't kill my session when I do it. > So you might not need to log off either. > Just switch to root and hit it with kill -9 if it misbehaves
Next time, that's the plan. So far tho, it is working fine. This is what ps shows: root 23338 0.0 0.0 54528 14400 It hasn't changed since I logged in. It's hasn't increased even one byte. Usually by now it would be up to a few 100MBs or so. Dale :-) :-)
