Hi,
I have a very annoying problem, I’d like to solve. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
I have OpenSuSE 11.4 + KDE 4.6 and after submitting my login credential, my desktop (wallpaper etc) appears but although the mouse moves, in all other respects the system seems frozen for a full 20 seconds or so. Most annoying!
How can I track the source of this down. I have been hunting through my log files but the only sightly suspicious entries I can find are these from /var/log/messages :
Oct 12 09:21:15 gzunder smartd[2939]: smartd has fork()ed into background mode. New PID=2939.
Oct 12 09:21:15 gzunder kernel: 50.804634] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Oct 12 09:21:27 gzunder checkproc: checkproc: can not get session id for process 3123!
Oct 12 09:21:34 gzunder kernel: 69.223494] start_kdeinit (3244): /proc/3244/oom_adj is deprecated, please use /proc/3244/oom_score_adj instead.
Oct 12 09:21:34 gzunder su: (to mprowe) root on none
I’m guessing that the entries are written after the event(?), so the first two (@ 09:21:15) end a rapid sequence of actions. I don’t have an IPv6 router and IPv6 is off on this client. So it seems that there is a 12 second gap to the next event at 09:21:27 and another 7 seconds to the start_kdeinit line.
The last line is me opening the file manager as SU.
If all the above is spurious, any suggestions to increase the logging during the KDE startup will be most welcome.
Regards, Martin
Hi Martin. This problem has been commented on elsewhere here (sorry, can’t find the threads). I believe someone suggested deleting aparmor and pulse (especially the latter). It fixed the problem for me. I now avoid installing them right from the start of new installations and I don’t have the problem any more.
[QUOTE=petermcph;2392965I believe someone suggested deleting aparmor and pulse (especially the latter).[/QUOTE]
Hi Peter,
Thank you for the suggestion. I’m half-way there (as a solution to other problems). Like you, I don’t install Aparmor as a mater of course, but I have had difficulties ridding myself of Pulse(?).
One of the strange things with this problem is that “once in a blue moon” it goes in in under a second. So its sorta intermittent!
I’d sill appreciate suggestions on debugging and trying to understand what the problem is though. So often I’ve run into problems just “trying” this or that.
Best regards, Martin
I found that if I went int Yast-Sound -other -pulse config and set Pulse off the problem went away. Note I also had no sound until I did this. CK804AC’97 audio controller here.
I was VERY reluctant to loose Pulse - The whole concept seems so much more logical and understandable. So I went on digging.
Found a thread that suggested that not all distros include a full Pulse implementation? So I went alooking…
Sure enough, after I added “paman”, “paprefs”, “pavucontrol” & “pavumetter” my freeze at KDE startup went away.
However, this still seemed a bit “hit and miss”! Any pointers to a HOWTO on doing a Full Pulse install on SuSE?
Best regards, Martin