ps -ef | grep hal 105 2453 1 0 07:20 ? 00:00:01 /usr/sbin/hald --daemon=yes root 2457 2453 0 07:20 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner root 2571 2457 0 07:20 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-input: Listening on /dev/input/event6 /dev/input/event5 /dev/input/event8 /dev/input/event3 /dev/input/event4 /dev/input/event0 /dev/input/event9 root 2630 2457 0 07:20 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-storage:
I'm begining to suspect all this may have a single root cause. For the last few update to KDE (4.2.x) the various widgets 'freeze' or are unresponsive or have a long (> 1 minute) delay in responding. These include the widgets in the bottom bar, the menu pop-up and of course the screen widgets I have - the clock and weather. The clock doesn't tick; it may jump at intervals. Other KDE widget things are unresponsive too. Doing a file save it may take a minute ore more before the dialogue box comes up. Now all this may have something going on behind the scenes, but I don't know because all this is on my start-up or a result from clicking applications. Once an application *is* running it runs just fine, its these little widgets and applets and start-ups that are problematic. So today I started K3B from the command line. I got these errors ========= $ k3b k3b(10639): ""Backgroundcolor" - conversion from "Window" to QColor failed" " (wrong format: expected '3' or '4' items, read '1')" k3b(10639): ""Foregroundcolor" - conversion from "WindowText" to QColor failed" " (wrong format: expected '3' or '4' items, read '1')" k3b(10639): ""Backgroundcolor" - conversion from "Window" to QColor failed" " (wrong format: expected '3' or '4' items, read '1')" k3b(10639): ""Foregroundcolor" - conversion from "WindowText" to QColor failed" " (wrong format: expected '3' or '4' items, read '1')" <unknown program name>(10638)/: Communication problem with "k3b" , 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." " ========= Is there some kind of DBUS problem? I'm not running AppArmour. I try again ... and get a different result ============== $ k3b QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&) error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" k3b(10639): Attempt to use QAction "view_dir_tree" with KXMLGUIFactory! k3b(10639): Attempt to use QAction "view_contents" with KXMLGUIFactory! k3b(10639): Attempt to use QAction "quick_dir_selector" with KXMLGUIFactory! QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&) error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" <unknown program name>(10695)/: Communication problem with "k3b" , 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." " BigBoy:~/Downloads> QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&) error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" QStringList Solid::Backends::Hal::HalManager::findDeviceByDeviceInterface(const Solid::DeviceInterface::Type&) error: "org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply" ============== IS HAL the problem? ======== polling /dev/sdb (every 2 sec) root 2632 2457 0 07:20 ? 00:00:06 hald-addon-storage: polling /dev/sr0 (every 2 sec) 105 2635 2457 0 07:20 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi: listening on acpid socket /var/run/acpid.socket root 3064 2457 0 07:20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-rfkill-killswitch root 3141 2457 0 07:20 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/hal/hald-addon-leds anton 10376 1 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/gvfs/gvfs-hal-volume-monitor anton 10806 10456 0 11:23 pts/0 00:00:00 grep hal ======== Interesting. Sometimes it says that HAL has disabled devices. All in all I'm confused, both by what I see and by the fact that its inconisitent. Some days I have no problems. I don't know why. Any suggests as to where I should start tracknig this down? -- The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important. --Dr. Martin Luther King Jr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org