[opensuse] plasmashell in Leap 42.1
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help. Marc.... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help.
Have you also applied all the latest stuff/updates? A lot of things and problems have been fixed. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (0.8°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free dynamic DNS, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/19/2016 10:49 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help. Have you also applied all the latest stuff/updates? A lot of things and problems have been fixed.
Thanks Per for your response. The Yast2 Online Update tool informed me this morning that I only had one update, something to do with security update for cups-filters. I applied it, no joy. Is this sufficient or should I be doing something else? Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
On 01/19/2016 10:49 PM, Per Jessen wrote:
Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help. Have you also applied all the latest stuff/updates? A lot of things and problems have been fixed.
Thanks Per for your response. The Yast2 Online Update tool informed me this morning that I only had one update, something to do with security update for cups-filters. I applied it, no joy. Is this sufficient or should I be doing something else?
I don't know if "Yast2 Online Update" == zypper patch, but it sounds good. I had some problems with plasmashell initially, but I think they got fixed. I'm only running a test installation of Leap, it's not being used much. /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (1.2°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/20/2016 01:11 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help.
Marc....
When I first installed Leap on my laptop, I was having the same thing
happen, and it turned out it was the baloo file indexer. After about 10
hours when it finished indexing everything, it went back to normal.
Still, though, there is something buggy about it, because it shouldn't
bog up the system like that.
I have also had some stability problems in KDE on my desktop pc, and I
added the KDE frameworks 5 repository and upgraded to it, and it seems
to have helped my desktop pc. So I am going to do the same thing for my
laptop.
This is the repository:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Frameworks5/openSUSE_Leap_42....
I just did a
"zypper dup --from
On 01/20/2016 03:59 PM, George Olson (SUSE list) wrote:
When I first installed Leap on my laptop, I was having the same thing happen, and it turned out it was the baloo file indexer. After about 10 hours when it finished indexing everything, it went back to normal. Still, though, there is something buggy about it, because it shouldn't bog up the system like that.
What the GP is describing has nothing to do with Baloo. And Baloo doe snot index one'e entire machine, it only indexes you personal directory. /home/george If Baloo gets hung up its usually something totally strange or a basically broken file system, or someone mounting some mountain of files or DVD images in their home directory. In fact, Baloo is quite broken now, in that it won't index plain text files unless they have an extension of .txt and are less than 50k. (Like an extension ever really mattered in Linux). I've filed a bug report about that. I have a mountain of source code I keep an index of, and it will no longer index those files because the extension is not txt. FFS what were they thinking? Oh, also, there is a nasty first run issue in Baloo if you had an older version installed because they changed indexer back-ends from Xapian (which still gets installed for this purpose) to LMDB (from the OpenLdap project), which is a memory mapped database. So Converting from Xapian to LMDB on the fly AND having a big database of existing scanned documents is another challenge. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/20/2016 01:11 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help.
Marc....
I forgot to mention also I did 2 things... The first was for the graphics: On my laptop I went through the detailed procedure to install bumblebee from here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505270-ultimate-tutorial-installi... Following it in detail (I had to tweak one thing, I don't remember what now) was what made the difference on my laptop. On my desktop I installed the nvidia repository (available in yast -> add repositories -> community repositories). The second was with the QT repository: On my desktop I also added the QT5 repository at this url: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/ I don't remember specifically looking to install anything from the QT5 repository, but zypper seems to have picked up a few packages from there and put them on my system. -- George Box #1: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | AMD Phenom IIX4 | 64 | 32GB Box #2: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | AMD Athlon X3 | 64 | 4GB Laptop #1: 13.1 | KDE 4.12 | Core i7-2620M | 64 | 8GB Laptop #2: 42.1 | KDE Plasma 5 | Core i7-4710HQ | 64 | 16GB -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/20/2016 09:45 PM, George Olson (SUSE list) wrote:
On 01/20/2016 01:11 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Hi - I have just upgraded one of my systems to Leap 42.1 and am encountering a problem that is turning into a showstopper for us. Every few minutes, and in particular it seems after clicking on the launcher in the kicker bar at the bottom of the desktop, the system comes to a near halt for a few minutes and does not respond to a lot of mouse or keyboard input actions. Any shell window that is open will be responsive but much of the GUI stops responding. I have discovered that when this happens, top reports that the plasmashell process is using 100% of the cpu. Google has not provided me with a solution that I can understand, so in layman's terms can some kind guru tell me how to fix this issue? I will gladly provide any additional info needed, and thanks in advance for your help.
Marc....
I forgot to mention also I did 2 things...
The first was for the graphics: On my laptop I went through the detailed procedure to install bumblebee from here: https://forums.opensuse.org/showthread.php/505270-ultimate-tutorial-installi...
Following it in detail (I had to tweak one thing, I don't remember what now) was what made the difference on my laptop.
On my desktop I installed the nvidia repository (available in yast -> add repositories -> community repositories).
The second was with the QT repository: On my desktop I also added the QT5 repository at this url: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Qt5/openSUSE_Leap_42.1/
I don't remember specifically looking to install anything from the QT5 repository, but zypper seems to have picked up a few packages from there and put them on my system.
Thanks Per, George, John for taking the time to reply and give me a few leads... In a internet round-about fashion I finally came across the openSuSE SDB:NVIDIA_drivers document and lo and behold that document appears to actually have been kept up to date! Kudos to who-ever took the trouble... Anywise, it suggested that I use YaST's Software Management to "Install all matching recommended packages". So I did, (dunno why this wasn't done automagically when I installed 42.1 on my system) and that changed out the nouveau drivers for NVidia ones. Since then I have not seen the plasmashell using 100% of my CPU. I have only had a few days of observation so cannot say for certain that this problem is solved but it certainly seems to be better at the moment! That said, I do see other processes also consuming 100% of my CPU, such as y2base and Firefox which can bring my systems to a halt for awhile, but that in not occurring as frequently as this plasmashell problem was, so I will live with it for now and hope a fix will come along soon... Thanks again guys.... Marc... -- "The Truth is out there" - Spooky -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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George Olson (SUSE list)
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John Andersen
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Marc Chamberlin
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Per Jessen