Re: [gentoo-user] KDE 4.2.1 lancelot using 100% of a core

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Saturday 07 March 2009 10:12:42 Roy Wright wrote:


> Yes, no issues with kde 4.2.0.  What happened is I'd upgraded to the bad
> nvidia-drivers-180.35, downgraded to 180.29, then upgraded kde from
> 4.2.0 to 4.2.1.  One weird side-effect of the 4.2.1 upgrade is that I
> lost my plasma desktop layout.  No biggy, I just added the plasmoids
> back.  Then I noticed the lancelot cpu usage issue.  I have not noticed
> any behavior problems.  Kde 4.2 has been rock solid.

I followed the exact same steps (even the nvidia upgrade-downgrade cycle) on 
my notebook with no problems whatsoever. The only difference is I have ~amd64

> ~x86 system
>
> emerge --info at http://pastebin.com/m6914fe90 (1 month duration)
>
> lshw at http://pastebin.com/m5a355800 (1 month duration)
>
> All I can think to try is to move my ~/.kde4.2 directory and let it
> regenerate.

That's a good quick easy check. At least we'll know if it's a code or a config 
issue

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