We have an interesting issue that I think is caused by KDE and recent locations. I think that when you start KDE, something is attempting to access directories that you have recently been in, for example in Dolphin. Sounds innocent. However, if you: 1. Turn on two computers. One is your openSUSE with KDE (the mount client), and the other shares a drive. 2. Mount a remote drive during one login session. Perhaps visit the mounted drive with dolphin. As one does. 3. Exit all programs in KDE and then log out. Turn off the computers. 4. Turn on only your linux computer and log in to the desktop. What happens is that the desktop is very unresponsive. The mouse moves, but nothing else. For a very long time. Turn on the remote computer and suddenly all works. The system startup and getting to the login is quick as usual. It is after the KDE login that the fun starts. We also see that if the remote computer is turned off at any time, the entire KDE desktop suddenly gets unresponsive. Until the remote computer comes back. We are using automount (defined fully in /etc/fstab) for this because having the mounts not be automount is a problem when the remote system is not available. Which, in the real world, can be the case. All of this only happens in KDE. If the system is turned on and one logs in via ssh (no desktop), the system works as expected. It is interesting that as soon as one starts KDE - even if one is not accessing a remote drive in any open application - suddenly the last places that were visited are being automounted. Until KDE is started, the mounts are not done. It is KDE that is making this happen. Originally we thought this might be because we had the drives mounted in the user's $HOME. We changed that so they are automounted in /media. No difference. It looks like KDE wants, somewhere, to keep accessing recent places you have visited. So the automount option to unmount drives not accessed in some time has no effect. KDE will keep accessing them. Even if no open program is doing so. If this only effected accessing these remote drives, we could survive. But for the entire desktop to be unresponsive is a problem. It has been reported that ATL-CTRL-DEL in the KDE desktop gets you to the logout screen directly, and then the system is responsive. This is openSUSE 42.3, and what ever KDE is had. I realize that this is perhaps older and not interesting. I have not been able to test this on a newer openSUSE release. Which is too bad. Is there any way to tell KDE to not try to access these locations? Or to not freeze the whole desktop when a mount is not available? -- Roger Oberholtzer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org