Situation: Fresh TW install with KDE. Anything that attempts to show notifications will freeze indefinitely. Hardware: Phenom II, AD1988B HDA audio codec. Examples: * plasmashell showing the “new updates” notification from PackageKit * Konsole getting a bell signal Uninstalling the GStreamer backend (which I had suspected because GStreamer is full of deadlocking bugs, by design) or switching to libvlc fixes this issue. PS: This pants-on-head retarded MicroFocus SSO service that is required for signing into boo fails to send confirmation emails to addresses containing a + sign because it urlencodes them… Or else I would have filed an issue, possibly with a backtrace, likely pointing to some mutex in gst. But I’ve wasted too much time on that now. Whom do I contact to report such issues? I have not the slightest idea. This huge corporate wall wouldn’t let mere mortals pass… I find that thing extremely inappropriate for *open*SUSE, with the registration process and whatnot. Actively harmful to the distro’s image, too.