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

[Roy Wright <roy@wright.org>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> 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
> 

Looks like it was a config type issue with something in ~/.kde4.2.

Thank you for helping me work thru it.

Roy