And again another one to see if someone else has the same problem.
I find 4.2.95 quite unstable. I mean I right-click to click on RUN COMMAND, the small window shows, but I cannot type in. Maybe 1min later what I typed 1min earlier then shows up. If I am not patient enough, after playing around and clicking on different things, KDE decides to obey my actions and everything pops.
I click on dolphin, it fakes loading (bouncing cursor) but nothing pops. After 1-2mins the dolphin window shows up.
I click on SIGN-IN button in amsn, nothing happens, program freezes there. I can switch desktops while KDE is “thinking” of what to do with my commands, but whatever I click does not return action until 20sec, 30sec, 1min+.
Same when I log out or restart. I wait, wait… I have time to play around and then I click on dolphin again, nothing happens, then oops dolphin pops but the restart command I hit before poped as well and now system is restarting. lolll
I will reinstall. I used DVD. But does anyone else experience the same problem?
I have no idea how to file a bug for that, I mean I have no logs to prove anything.
It’s working great for me. Haven’t had any problems yet on my laptop. I’m test running it on a computer at work as well and the only time I have problems there is with having too little RAM (512 mb) with too many programs open. I love how small a footprint it leaves just sitting there (168mb), so I can run a couple programs before it starts to slow down. My laptop, as stated before, has no problems whatsoever. Everything works fast and efficiently.
I used the live-cd to install so there may be discrepancies on what was installed or configuration files or whatnot.
> And again another one to see if someone else has the same problem.
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> I find 4.2.95 quite unstable. I mean I right-click to click on RUN
> COMMAND, the small window shows, but I cannot type in. Maybe 1min later
> what I typed 1min earlier then shows up. If I am not patient enough,
> after playing around and clicking on different things, KDE decides to
> obey my actions and everything pops.
I’m not sure that I’d say that it’s inherently unstable but I agree that it
is dreadfully slow. Apart from that, my main problems are Kmail being broken
and there being no sound. It certainly seems terribly buggy for a final
release candidate - seems to have taken several steps backwards from 4.2.90.
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“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
I was just checking out all of the functionalities this morning as I was preparing for work and everything was opening up rather quickly, until I tried dolphin. The cursor bounced as if it were going to open dolphin, but even now (5 minutes later) it still hasn’t launched. I then tried from the command line and got this error:
<unknown program name>(27601)/: Communication problem with “dolphin” , it probably crashed.
Error message was: “org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply” : " “Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.” "
Ok, well I am “happy” (in a way :)) to see that things are not as perfect as KDE3.5 not just for me.
Yes sound is erratic as well, my card often disables itself, out of nowhere, I am just there sitting and looking (or trying to click on something to make it work) and poofff, I get a tray notification about Phonon disabling my sound card. ICH9 family.
Is 4.2.95 KDE4.3 beta 2? No, it’s RC1 I think. Beta 2 was better for me.
But now it’s being so erratic everywhere that I cannot work at all. I always need to restart or even press the reset button, things just freeze there, except the mouse and switching desktops. M2 was better for this. I think it was 4.2.85 at that time.
I wonder if it’s nvidia’s drivers, I should try with standard driver.
I’m using KDE 4.2.95 (KDE 4.2.95 (KDE 4.3 RC1)) “release 139”
I also have this problem, with a computer that only has 512 MB of ram, where bootchartgui comes up as a process and it takes up about 30% of the processor and about 198 MB of ram. I’m not really sure what it is at the moment, as it has only really happened on this low memory computer. It may be happening to my laptop but I have enough ram that it doesn’t affect the laptop like it does the low memory desktop. Either way it brings the computer to a very slow crawl. It’s a root process, but killing it fixes the problem. Not sure why this happens though.
It doesn’t seem as if my CPU is under load when I wait for my actions to happen. I will take a closer look, though, maybe it’s only 10% in my case, who knows, but I’ll check if I can see a process running at that time and if it’s the same every time.
I have 4Gb. I must say it’s not slow overall, I mean when things move, they move super fast. It’s just the time it takes between my action and the actual start of the move that is more than a show stopper. Sometimes all is quick, sometimes I have to wait before it completes my action.
I’ll check on that TOP command and see if I can find something there.
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> Ok, that would make some sense.
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> You mean M3 has 4.3 beta 2 packaged on the DVD? Or they have not
> tweaked opensuse to support RC1 yet?
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> I don’t remember updating KDE to RC1, but maybe it did by dependencies
> at some point and I never noticed.
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Probably yes to both questions, but I also think they may tweak KDE (in this case Beta2) packages in the milestone release.
My Computer says I have KDE: 4.2.90 (KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)) “release 1”
Although using zypper dup to upgrade releases is not supported yet, I used it to go from M1 to M2 to M3. When I went from M2 to M3, I disabled the KDE factory repo and only enabled Factory-Oss and -Non-Oss. I ended up with the M3 KDE 4.3 from Factory-Oss, after sorting out any red-lined packages with dependency problems (iirc very few). I also had to re-install any multimedia packages from packman repo (11.1) that had been overwritten (e.g libxine1).
Bear in mind, that almost all packages from DVD are in Factory-Oss/-Non-Oss, but not all, e.g. SDL (Simple DirectMedia Layer Library) isn’t as mine is red-lined with nothing available.
What’s funny is that even after a full fresh installed system using a new user (/home/user is different than my previous) and not doing anything with repos, no upgrade, no addition of packages, nothing, just the selection from the installation at the beginning, and not using nvidia driver, I end up with the same erratic behaviors.
Click on Dolphin, it opens 1min later. Click on Run Command, it opens now, but I cannot type in, need to wait 1min. Click on red shutdown button, pop-up shows now, click on restart, nothing happens. I play around, then after 1-2mins the machine restarts (that’s my restart command from 1-2mins ago waking up).
So I have downloaded the 32-bits version and will try that one, in case it’s architecture related, I have seen that a few times in the past with 2-3 distros.
My sound now doesn’t load (kmix) at all, even after a fresh install. It did before. Good news is, I can’t wait for M4 to come out! :Plol!
I am using 32bit versions on openSUSE (could use 64bit but never have on this distro).
Don’t know about /home/user differences, but after upgrade I do get long loading delays on first reboot. I think that was the case on M2(?).
After that the delays are shorter after booting, but still too long until after the “update notifier” gives the message that I need to configure an update repo. It gets better after that point. It is as if the DE initialisation takes way to long to complete before it is useable for starting KDE apps like dolphin etc. Doing anything during that seems to make it worse. Anyway, after that initial period, the system behaves in a normal and stable fashion.
Also, since 3.5 including betas, firefox always seems to take a long time to complete its loading sequence although it is useable before the cursor stops bouncing. After that the performance is good.
I can’t remember if I cleared the old KDE4 hidden files in /home. I might give it a try to see if that helps
You’re right on the boot sequence, before the repo configuration notification it is awful.
Unfortunately I can’t remember after that, I believe it was still hard in my case, but less. And yes, it takes a long time to pop-up, a few mins at least.
I am curious to compare on the same machine the 32 and 64-bits, I will know soon enough.
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> I upgrade my op 11.1 (x64) to kde 4.3 rc1
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> my bigest problem is that it slow down other program .
> vlc v1 so slow that unplayable . same with mplayer . vlc also .
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Do I understand you to say that you turned your operational system into a
test system? I don’t know about 11.1 but 4.3-RC1 is very buggy on 11.2 with
no sound, Kmail not working, and some applications being very slow.
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Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK. E-mail: newsman not newsboy
“I wear the cheese. It does not wear me.”
Did you not realize that this thread is about Milestone 3 testing - see M3 in the title? There are other threads in this forum for 4.3 on 11.1 and you will get better advice there. You could also start a new thread, to avoid confusion.
Ok, I am out of luck, guess what. I wanted to try the LiveCD 32-bits to see if same thing happens with 32-Bits on my machine and there is a bug related to nvidia cards, it doesn’t start X at the liveCD boot sequence.rotfl!
I can’t download the DVD 32-bits, to the risk of busting my monthly 30Gb limit… So I guess I will completely stop testing with M3 and wait for M4 at the far end of July.
That’s unfortunate as there doesn’t seem to be many people posting about M3. BTW generating a new /home/.kde4 set seems to have improved the loading delays but not completely removed them.
There appears to be more posts involved in the KDE 4.3 RC ****ing contest. lol!
