On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote: > Hello, > > This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more > alert and know what I did right before this happened. So what did > transpire? > > I sent my laptop into sleep mode via the popup menu on the battery > monitor in KDE. It did this, however, when the machine came out of > sleep mode, there was no monitor. It wasn't on. I tried my basic set > of tricks: try and change the screen brightness; try and switch > monitors via the key combo on the laptop; close the lid and re-open > it; press the key combo to turn the monitor off; press the key combo > to go back to sleep mode (didn't work). > > Eventually I picked a button that did work: POWER. The system shut > down normally! After X11 died, it went back the the framebuffer and > acted like nothing had happened. > > However, right after this, KDE has been acting *really* slow. Much > slower than it should. # top revealed that artsd, xorg, and kded were > eating cpu time. This is the same behaviour as on Kubuntu before. I > suspect the cause was the same, however, I don't remember exactly so I > won't point fingers. > > Do any of you know what this is? Do you think if I recompiled xorg, > kde, and arts if it'd fix the problem? Or, even better, is there a > way to axe all the configuration settings and see if that fixes the > problem? Please help, I think it's affecting Gnome as well (scary!)
recompiling will fix NOTHING. There are a lot of temporary files in /tmp and ~ / remove them and see if the problem is still there. All KDE related configs are in ~/.kde3.5 (.kde3.4), so (re)moving that sets KDE back to its 'fresh' state. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
