What is krandom.kss and why is it running 100+ instances?

[Andy Pieters]

Hi all

This morning when I turned on my monitors, head 1 didn't come out of screen 
saver mode.

The system was also in great pain because of an unreasable number of instances 
of krandom.kss

They where so hard to kill that I had to give up, do ctr+alt+f2, login as root 
and type kill X.  After it respawed everything worked fine again.

What possible fixes are available for this?

* possible to limit number of same programs running?
* possible to tell KDE not to start that many instances of krandom.kss?
* other things?


Kind regards


Andy


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