From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFC4F1381F3 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 10:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DF26E0B5B; Sun, 26 May 2013 10:40:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wg0-f41.google.com (mail-wg0-f41.google.com [74.125.82.41]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D7D8BE0AD2 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 10:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f41.google.com with SMTP id k13so1439811wgh.4 for ; Sun, 26 May 2013 03:40:09 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=AzQAxp2NBiILy+VsO/UCMYRASWx+W9/Lip3VkO7SEKM=; b=XyuTQ/3es3yNFP2J5PkPB4b6UNVRNaN5APdgwEXdS1Yi+8nkz7gV8Dvc7gFC6m7ALn 7947NexE6i4lPBjtgVnKcotF4NZzDemKvVMIaqhQi53XANLxtIj2GJNd1F4kLi/GjHfO kfII/rEBfiE/3UdHeUTiAT+VbIGed22xzLvrXv2D2cFwArSHh1nRqZaY3kX6GVBdMAzB S6oVVh8cvqQs0ExBFUsAf2wF6R0+Sz2aXs7sN0eeAbhZMGgouxMQ8iXv5Zrkfx6gEjwH I1CyqijHuqIDHBJd3B7uNrAhgA5WrjsuDOAhXXuR/WaWP+L+qkTOGsoS6EfXf0P4vkBO M0OA== X-Received: by 10.194.179.198 with SMTP id di6mr5033168wjc.10.1369564809398; Sun, 26 May 2013 03:40:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-126-115.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.126.115]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id cw8sm10063549wib.7.2013.05.26.03.40.07 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 26 May 2013 03:40:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51A1E65D.3070701@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 May 2013 12:39:25 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130518 Thunderbird/17.0.6 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Nvidia drivers and KDE problem References: <51A1D201.8040008@gmail.com> <51A1D8BF.6000701@gmail.com> <51A1DB08.4090604@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51A1DB08.4090604@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cc7e4cc9-9a60-4c92-bc0f-829754cf82b3 X-Archives-Hash: 6000c3db4001af00517ab2b620858061 On 26/05/2013 11:51, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> I get a similar issue, my video card is an ATI and I use the radeon >> drivers. Same symptom as you - plasma stops updating it's widgets like >> clocks and stops responding to the mouse. Keyboard works. In my case, >> it's usually linked to nfs and smb mounts that went away (eg, if I >> forget to umount my NFS media server at home and go to work) which >> indicates a blocking issue somehow. I've read many reports on the >> internet that krunner is somehow involved, so that might be a good >> starting point for investigation. krunner is the thing you get in KDE >> when typing Alt-F2 > > So this may not be a nvidia issue at all since you get the same with a > ATI card. Right? yes > > What package provides the kicker thingy? I think in KDE3 it was called > kicker but it appears to have changed to something else. Is that > krunner that has it now? Maybe it's time you used the "thingy" suffix a little less and the real names of things a little more :-) What thing are you asking about? The panel that is usually at the bottom and holds the plasma widgets? Or the thin popup you get with Alt-F2? The panel is called plasma-desktop and comes from kde-base/plasma-workspace The popup is krunner and comes from kde-base/krunner I doubt very much it's a real bug as such in either KDE app (although the fix might go in there). It looks much more to me like a side-effect of IO blocking - two or more apps are trying to get something done and unexpectedly are not getting answers, so they hang around waiting in the doorway and get get in the way of everything else. And just for fun, video drivers are also trying to get in on the act as they have to deal with mouse pointer repaints... Debugging this one is going to be fun (for peculiar definitions of fun) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com