kde slow to start after a crash

[Walter Cazzola]

Dear Linuxers,
I've a quite frustrating problem, it is the second time that my PC
freezes and after resetting the PC KDE starts very slowly (it is taking
more or less 20 minutes to be fully loaded and responsive) and reboot
doesn't help.

The first time I have solved by canceling all the configuration files of
KDE (both .kde and .kderc) and reconfiguring the whole thing. This is an
experience that I'd prefer to avoid.

Any idea about how to solve the issue?

My system is FC13 up to date with KDE 4.5.3, nvidia card and kernel
2.6.34.7-63. I can provide any piece of log if you address me to what to
look for.

Thanks for the help

Walter

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[Fedora] Re: kde slow to start after a crash

[Walter Cazzola]

On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:

>  If you have desktop effects enabled, try disabling them or try to
> login
>  using session "kde (failsafe)".  If that helps, it's very likely a video
>  driver problem, or at least an incompatibility with one of kwin's configured
>  effects plugins (first one I'd recommend disabling for testing, is the blur
>  plugin). 
I've the desktop effects enabled but not the blur one. BTW everything
was working like a charm before the system crashed (and the crash was
due to the "send file" option of skype) but it become extremely slow
after such a crash and I suppose the crash has messed up with a cofnig
file in the .kde dir but I don't know which one.

Walter

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Walter Cazzola, PhD - Associate Professor, DICo, University of Milano
E-mail: cazzola(a)dico.unimi.it  Ph.: [phone]  Fax: [phone]
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[Fedora] Re: kde slow to start after a crash

[James McKenzie]

On 12/9/10 3:22 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
>  On Thu, 9 Dec 2010, Rex Dieter wrote:
>
> > If you have desktop effects enabled, try disabling them or try to login
> > using session "kde (failsafe)".  If that helps, it's very likely a
> video
> > driver problem, or at least an incompatibility with one of kwin's 
> > configured
> > effects plugins (first one I'd recommend disabling for testing, is 
> > the blur
> > plugin).
>
>  I've the desktop effects enabled but not the blur one. BTW everything
>  was working like a charm before the system crashed (and the crash was
>  due to the "send file" option of skype) but it become extremely slow
>  after such a crash and I suppose the crash has messed up with a cofnig
>  file in the .kde dir but I don't know which one. 
Might not be anything to do
with KDE but rather the Skype send file 
failure.  Did this continue, even after a full system clean-up after 
rebooting/powering down-up the system?

James McKenzie

[Rex Dieter]

Walter Cazzola wrote:

>  Dear Linuxers,
>  I've a quite frustrating problem, it is the second time that my PC
>  freezes and after resetting the PC KDE starts very slowly (it is taking
>  more or less 20 minutes to be fully loaded and responsive) and reboot
>  doesn't help.
>  
>  The first time I have solved by canceling all the configuration files of
>  KDE (both .kde and .kderc) and reconfiguring the whole thing. This is an
>  experience that I'd prefer to avoid.
>  
>  Any idea about how to solve the issue?
>  
>  My system is FC13 up to date with KDE 4.5.3, nvidia card and kernel
>  2.6.34.7-63. I can provide any piece of log if you address me to what to
>  look for. 
If you have desktop effects enabled, try disabling them or try to login 
using session "kde (failsafe)".  If that helps, it's very likely a video 
driver problem, or at least an incompatibility with one of kwin's configured 
effects plugins (first one I'd recommend disabling for testing, is the blur 
plugin).

-- Rex

-- Rex