I (partly) answer my own posting below. On Wednesday 04 October 2006 11:48, Paul C. Leopardi wrote:
This looks like this bug (again ?!) http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=64671
The problem seems to be related to powersaved. I had removed S09powersaved and K13powersaved from /etc/init.d/rc5.d (and rc2.d and rc3.d) because the boot sequence was hanging as soon as powersaved started to switch CPU frequencies. It looks like kded depends in some way on powersaved. I put S09powersaved and K13powersaved back into /etc/init.d/rc5.d but changed /etc/sysconfig/powersave/cpufreq to have CPUFREQ_ENABLED="no" and switched to runlevel 3 then runlevel 5. It looks at the moment like kded and kwallet are working. At least, so far I haven't seen the 100% CPU problem again. Now, all I need to do is understand why powersaved can't change the CPU frequency without freezing. Best, Paul