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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE hangs again
From:       David Faure <david.faure () insa-lyon ! fr>
Date:       1999-07-26 8:55:13
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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

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David FAURE
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