A near freeze of plasma

[Ed Greshko]

On 09/18/15 23:02, Rex Dieter wrote:
> 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

I'll follow the BZ but just FYI I've not encountered a "near freeze" in at least a week.


-- 
It seems most people that say they are "done talking about it" never really are until given the last word.