A near freeze of plasma

[Rex Dieter]

Glenn Holmer wrote:

> On 09/17/2015 08:44 AM, George Avrunin wrote:
>> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:48:51 -0500, Glenn Holmer <shadowm at lyonlabs.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 09/15/2015 11:52 PM, Robin Laing wrote:
>>>> Have had similar issues on a machine and in all cases it is the kde bug
>>>> reporter that has locked the session applications.  Open a tty session
>>>> and kill it and everything works as expected.
>>>>
>>>> I cannot remember the application at this second.
>>>
>>> Anybody who can? Is there a bug report against this?
>> 
>> When I got the "near freeze" yesterday, I tried killing drkonqi.  That
>> seemed
>> to do the trick.  Robin, is that the program you mean?
> 
> Dropping back to console and issuing "killall -9 drkonqi" when Plasma 5
> did its daily freeze just now allowed the desktop to recover.
> 
> So this is the real problem behind the freeze? The crash is not a good
> thing of course, but why does drkonqi whack the machine like this?


Based on these findings (excellent detective work!), I've opened a bug to 
track it at

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264486

-- rex