From kde-devel Mon Jul 26 08:55:13 1999 From: David Faure Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 08:55:13 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: KDE hangs again X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=93299179903858 Please, please, state the KDE version you're using. A race between krootwm and kfm has been fixed some time ago, but I can't know whether you're experiencing it or something else. On Sat, Jul 24, 1999 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Stefan van den Oord wrote: > Hi, > > Guess what: KDE just hung again. > I was having trouble with a bad (data)CD, which caused the kernel to > have read errors and (small) timeouts. I guess that resulted in a > bigger chance of the race condition to occur; there were a lot of X > events in the event queue every time the kernel returned. But that's > talking in the direction of the hyptothesis; it still can be > something entirely different. > > Anyway, first KDE didn't respond for a few seconds. Someone described > that behaviour in the thread "Strange hangs with KDE 1.1 (KPanel)" as > well, but that was (and is) not the real problem. (Well, it may be > connected, I don't know.) Shortly after that, KDE hung again, with > exactly the same symptoms I described in the forementioned thread. > > Again I logged in remotely, and first killed kpanel. Nothing. What > next? Just arbitrarily I chose to kill klipper. Nothing. Hmm, didn't > someone mention krootwm as a possible cause? Ok, kill it! And what do > you know, everything (I hadn't killed :-) came back again. > > So now I have two seperate situations. In the first, killing kpanel > solved the problem, in the second killing krootwm did it. Makes you > wonder if killing krootwm would have worked as well, the first time? > Maybe it is a deadlock between krootwm and some other app, which > happened to be kpanel then. But again, your guess is as good as > mine... > > REQUEST: if you have a similar hang, try and kill krootwm, so that we > can find out if that one is the problem. > > Stefan > > -- > Stefan van den Oord > s.m.vandenoord@student.utwente.nl -- David FAURE david.faure@insa-lyon.fr, faure@kde.org http://www.insa-lyon.fr/People/AEDI/dfaure/index.html KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today