Re: [gentoo-user] Re: knotify4 is having a hissy fit again

2011-10-19 Thread Mick
On Tuesday 18 Oct 2011 23:22:38 Neil Bothwick wrote:
 On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:02:20 +0100, Mick wrote:
  After some further investigation it is worth reporting that the problem
  was caused not by knotify, but by kdeinit!
  
  I exited X and stopped xdm.  Only one knotify4 was left running as well
  as the kdeinit, both pegged at 100% and neither would go away after the
  X session had exited.  I was able to kill -15 the knotify PID, but the
  kdeinit would not shift until I used kill -9.
 
 It's actually kded4 causing the problem, and it is a known issue.
 killall -9 kded4 gets things working again.

You're right - was posting from memory, which is not what it used to be!  I am 
convinced that by the end of the day I am experiencing some badblocks.  ;-)
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Regards,
Mick


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: knotify4 is having a hissy fit again

2011-10-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:02:20 +0100, Mick wrote:

 After some further investigation it is worth reporting that the problem
 was caused not by knotify, but by kdeinit!
 
 I exited X and stopped xdm.  Only one knotify4 was left running as well
 as the kdeinit, both pegged at 100% and neither would go away after the
 X session had exited.  I was able to kill -15 the knotify PID, but the
 kdeinit would not shift until I used kill -9.

It's actually kded4 causing the problem, and it is a known issue.
killall -9 kded4 gets things working again.


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Neil Bothwick

Death is proven to be 99.9% fatal to all laboratory rats.


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