much of KDE freezes for 20 seconds (includes strace output)

[Rex Dieter]

Hans Ecke wrote:

> Some service is failing and KDE takes 20 seconds to notice that or to 
> try and start it.
> 
> How do I debug that? I attached an strace log, but that is very opaque. 
> Scroll down the timestamps and you see the big jump at 07:50:38.674661 
> and at 07:50:49.615261. Two select() calls that take 10 and 15 seconds, 
> respectively. I guess file descriptor 7 is its connection to DBUS? 

I'm sorry, I fail to see any strace.log here. ??

One other thing that may be relevant is khotkeys (global shortcuts). 
I've heard of it causing symptoms like this.

Could try renaming/removing ~/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc

and relogin.

Another thing to try is to see if this is reproducible as another (new) 
user on the same box.  (rules out configuration issue).

-- Rex