Leen, On Sunday 10 December 2006 11:01, Leendert Meyer wrote:
On Sunday 10 December 2006 19:44, Randall R Schulz wrote:
Hi,
For quite a while in my testing of OpenSUSE 10.2 (possibly ever since I started with alpha5, but I'm not sure), I've been seeing a KDE Crash alert for KPowersave every time I log in.
I'm not sure what role this application plays in normal system operation. Nothing is overtly malfunctioning as far as I can tell.
I use it to "hibernate" my desktop system (suspend to disk). Takes about 30 s to shut down, and 45 s to startup. Very nice!
Since this system will be (in part) a server, it will remain an always-on system. It is by far the slowest system I've ever used as measured by the time from power-on (or reset) to KDE prompt. Which is ironic, since it's by far the most high-performing system I've ever owned.
The system is an always-on desktop.
% rpm -qa |egrep -i powersave kpowersave-0.7.1-6 powersave-0.15.10-3 powersave-libs-0.15.10-3
Yup, have those too.
How should I deal with this? Should the application be running? If not, how do I get KDE to stop launching it when I log in? If it is important, how might I diagnose and repair the problem?
Hmm, might be an error in it's config file? Try logging out, renaming ~/.kde/share/config/kpowersaverc, and logging in again.
The current contents (as I'm logged in) are pretty simple: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- [General] AlreadyStarted=true [infoDialog] dbusNotRunning=false -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==-
KPowerSave's autostart is an option in its settings dialog. Right click on the plug in the system tray, choose Configure KPowersave, choose the "General Settings"-tab, "Autostart"-panel.
Of course, since it crashes upon start-up, that tray icon and generally all KPowersave functionality presented via its GUI is unavailable! Attempting to start it via the KDE menu produces the same crash, instantaneously. I then removed ~/.kde/share/config/kpowersaverc and launched KPowersave again, but the results were the same. In fact, it did not get far enough to re-create the kpowersaverc file.
You might want to try disable the autostart, quitting KPowersve, and starting it from a terminal. Maybe you get some useful messages.
As above, nothing that requires KPowersave to be running is an option, as things stand.
Cheers,
Leen
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