Strange application lockups

[Mark C. Allman]

On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 08:42 -0400, Don Levey wrote:
> On 7/20/2012 01:12, Emmett Culley wrote:
> ...
> > 
> > My system is running KDE and is fully updated (30 minutes ago) via the
> > default repositories.
> > 
> > Is any body else seeing this?
> > 
> I have a similar, but perhaps more drastic, problem.
> 
> When I run KDE, *everything* will lock up after some undetermined amount
> of time.  When I move the mouse the cursor moves on the screen, but
> nothing updates.  I can't switch to another window or desktop; for all
> intents and purposes the KDE session is dead.  To be honest, I can't
> remember if the command line is accessible via telnet or ssh from
> another machine, but I'm sure I could find out tonight.  This doesn't
> happen at all in LXDE, which is what I tend to run to avoid these problems.
> 
> Likewise I am fully updated, but not only using default but also
> RPMfusion repositories.
> 
>  -Don

A few questions:
1.  32-bit or 64-bit for the different boxes?
2.  Is this a recent problem, i.e., did the problem just start 
    happening after an update?

I'm running several boxes using KDE with kernel 3.4.4-5.fc17.x86_64 that
were updated to the latest <everything> last weekend. I don't see any
issues and their uptime ranges from 2 to 5 days.  I don't have "desktop
effects" enabled.

For reference here's a short list of a few of the KDE packages I have
installed:
  kde-baseapps-4.8.4-1.fc17.x86_64
  kdelibs-common-4.8.4-5.fc17.x86_64
  kdepim-4.8.4-2.fc17.x86_64
  kde-settings-4.8-16.fc17.noarch
  kdegraphics-4.8.4-1.fc17.noarch
  kde-wallpapers-4.8.4-1.fc17.noarch
  kdepim-runtime-4.8.4-1.fc17.x86_64
  kde-runtime-4.8.4-2.fc17.x86_64
  kde-workspace-4.8.4-1.fc17.x86_64
  kde-filesystem-4-39.fc17.x86_64
  kdenetwork-4.8.4-1.fc17.x86_64
  kde-settings-kdm-4.8-16.fc17.noarch
  kdesdk-common-4.8.4-1.fc17.noarch
  kde-runtime-libs-4.8.4-2.fc17.x86_64
  kde-workspace-libs-4.8.4-1.fc17.x86_64
  kdelibs-4.8.4-5.fc17.x86_64
  kdeutils-4.8.4-1.fc17.noarch
  kdegraphics-libs-4.8.4-1.fc17.noarch
  kdepim-libs-4.8.4-2.fc17.x86_64


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