[gentoo-user] Re: Extraordinarily laggy UI, keyboard, udev weirdness, KDE 4.5

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Paul Hartman
<paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, I recently upgraded my kernel to 2.6.35.1 and my KDE to 4.5. After
> rebooting, I have some weird, possibly unrelated issues:
>
> During bootup, boot process hangs on "waiting for uevents" for ~30
> seconds or so. I don't remember this ever happening before. As far as
> I can tell everything still works fine, it just delays the boot
> process a lot.
>
> In X the UI responsiveness randomly goes bad, keyboard especially. At
> first it'll be fine, then simply using Konsole and typing will begin
> to slow down. Also, screen output in general seems to freeze until I
> touch the mouse or keyboard. Even something like listing a directory.
> It's really weird... It gets so bad that it becomes completely
> unresponsive, freezing for minutes at a tie. It eventually un-freezes
> momentarily, long enough to logout and back in at least. I disabled
> desktop effects but it still had the same problem. I tried Gnome
> briefly last night before going to sleep and didn't experience this
> slowdown problem.
>
> Anyone else had those same problems or know what I might try? I'm
> using nvidia-drivers and tried 3 different versions with no success. I
> have not yet tried downgrading my kernel or KDE installation, but
> that's next on the list of things to try tonight.

FYI last night I upgraded to kernel 2.6.35.5 and everything seems to
be working normally, so I guess whatever caused my problems has been
solved. I still have long "waiting on uevents" at boot time, but I
guess it's normal and was unrelated, and I usually only boot once
every few months so it's not a big deal. :)

Thanks,
Paul