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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    Bug#38365: kicker disappears under heavy load
From:       John Firebaugh <jfirebaugh () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-02-28 21:21:27
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On Thursday 28 February 2002 10:40 am, Alan Chandler wrote:
> >Is this effect
> > reproduceable?
>
> Not guarenteed, but when I have loaded the system up with a lot happening
> the effect appears to trigger.  What happened before was that I loaded the
> system up so it was pretty busy, kicker dissappeared and didn't come back
> even though I was sitting there for perhaps 10 minutes or more with the
> mouse in the zone at the bottom of the screen.  Because the PC was running
> at heavy load which I wanted to keep going I got frustruated with no kicker
> so I went away whilst whatever was happening finished. In once case that
> was overnight. When I came back, the loaded system had stopped being so
> some time ago, but still leaving my mouse at the bottom for at least 30
> seconds - probably a minute and there was no sign of it appearing

If for some reason it doesn't unhide as soon as you touch the cursor to the 
screen edge, it probably won't ever unhide unless you move the mouse away for 
the edge and back.

> >I've changed the autohide code recently; I don't know if you
> > had the new (more reliable) code when this happened.
>
> The first time (about a week ago) was from CVS about a week before that. 
> Last night was from the CVS update last weekend, I am now running (but have
> not tried to reproduce the fault) from last nights CVS.

Please see if you can reproduce it with the latest CVS.

> What were the temporary socket files that appeared with kickers name in it?

Coolo says they are socket files connecting kicker and kio_http. Do you run 
knewsticker (as an internal applet)?

> When kicker was still hidden these files were there, once once kicker
> displayed again OK these files where then gone.

Hmm... interesting. May be a red herring though.
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