Public bug reported:
System: Ubuntu 12.10 x86 32bit with ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports enabled
How to reproduce
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1. Login to KDE
2. Launch any application (e.g. Dolphin)
3. Wait 5 sec.
Symptoms
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The whole screen hangs, only mouse cursur is movable.
It still able to switch to diffrent terminals
kwin --replace and any GUI application will hang if executed after this hang
until the original kwin is killed
Workaround
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1. switch to TTY terminal and login
2. send SIGKILL signal to terminate kwin (SIGTERM is not sufficient)
pkill --signal SIGKILL kwin
3. run another terminal emulator in TTY terminal
env DISPLAY=:0 konsole
4. Switch back to X terminal, execute following command in the Konsole window
kwin &
5. redo 1~4 if the problem persists.
Other details
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* It seems that this issue is not related to graphic interface...
* ppa-purge the kubuntu-ppa/backports to downgrade everything back to
quantal-updates seems to solve this issue too.
** Affects: kde-workspace (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
System: Ubuntu 12.10 x86 32bit with ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports enabled
How to reproduce
---------------------------------
1. Login to KDE
2. Launch any application (e.g. Dolphin)
3. Wait 5 sec.
Symptoms
---------------------------------
The whole screen hangs, only mouse cursur is movable.
It still able to switch to diffrent terminals
Workaround
---------------------------------
1. switch to TTY terminal and login
2. send SIGKILL signal to terminate kwin (SIGTERM is not sufficient)
- pkill --signal SIGKILL kwin
+ pkill --signal SIGKILL kwin
3. run another terminal emulator in TTY terminal
- env DISPLAY=:0 konsole
+ env DISPLAY=:0 konsole
4. Switch back to X terminal, execute following command in the Konsole window
- kwin &
- 5. redo 1~4 if the problem exists.
+ kwin &
+ 5. redo 1~4 if the problem persists.
Other details
----------------------------------
* It seems that this issue is not related to graphic interface...
* ppa-purge the kubuntu-ppa/backports to downgrade everything back to
quantal-updates seems to solve this issue too.
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kwin in ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports hangs just after login when
launching a random application.
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