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

[Walter Cazzola]

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Rick Stevens wrote:

> On 02/22/2012 12:55 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote:
>> Dear Linuxers,
>> I've a quite frustrating problem, yesterday trying to send a file via
>> Skype this crashed and my linux-box became unresponsive. After
>> rebooting KDE started really very slowly (it is taking more or less 20
>> minutes to be fully loaded and responsive) and this happens at every
>> reboot (and since this is a laptop it is quite frequent). And also once
>> started many applications (e.g., korganizer, klipper) are still
>> unresponsive and theirs menu take long time to appear.
>> 
>> I got the same problem with the same causes one year ago and at that
>> time I have solved reinstalling all the whole system but at the time was
>> a quite new installation and it was inexpensive to do that but now I'd
>> prefer to avoid. I have already tried to remove the cache and lock files
>> but it didn't work.
>> 
>> Any idea about how to solve the issue? If you address me I can provide
>> log files as well.
>> 
>> 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. I know it is quite old but it works for my needs and it took
>> so long to be fine tuned that I don't like the idea to start again.
>
> Try renaming your ~/.kde directory to ~/.kde-bkup:
>
> 	$ cd ~
> 	$ mv .kde .kde-bkup
>
> and log in again. This should essentially start your KDE session from
> scratch. You'll lose any settings you have and will have to reset them
> (or steal them from the ~/.kde-bkup directory--which is why I suggested
> the rename rather than deletion).

thanks for the suggestion, this didn't really do the trick since I had
to switch to a new user but has been usefull to see what was wrong and
akonadi and nepomuk was the responsible of the strange behavior

Walter
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