Has anyone else experienced this? It happens at least every day or two. On 17/06/17 11:27 AM, James Knott wrote:

I've noticed that my desktop frequently locks up recently. I can only get going agian by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace a couple of times and logging back in. Is this a new "feature"?

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On 06/23/2017 06:22 PM, John Andersen wrote:

Are you sure you are up to date on KDE updates? This use to be common, but its been months since this has happened.

You can usually do Alt-F2, then type into the little window: killall plasmashell & kstart plasmashell

I am familiar with that and even wrote a script to do it. However, this problem is much more recent and pressing Alt-F2 doesn't do anything. The only thing that gets me out is to shut KDE down entirely and log back in. However, it's only the desktop that locks up. Any running apps keep running. And I can even use NoMachine, from another computer, to access a Windows 10 virtual machine, even though I can't switch to it from my Linux desktop. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 18/06/17 01:27, James Knott wrote:

I've noticed that my desktop frequently locks up recently. I can only get going agian by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace a couple of times and logging back in. Is this a new "feature"?

What I have found, James, is that at random times some app. I am using stops working and I get the (error) message that 'kwin has stopped working. Do you want to restart application or want to report this problem' -- or words to this effect. From memory this occurs when I am closing the app.. I have never experienced this in all the many years I have been using openSUSE until now in Leap 42.2. As I said, this is a random occurrence and not reproducible on demand. If my memory (such as it is) serves me right, I did look in the logs but didn't see anything to indicate such a failure of Kwin. Oh, I am using KDE as the desktop, using the nVidia driver which I always compile myself, and this is on a desktop computer (16GB of RAM, 8-core AMD CPU) and not a laptop (which I rarely use). BC -- Government has become a committee for managing the affairs of the rich. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

Am Freitag, 23. Juni 2017, 18:05:31 CEST schrieb James Knott:

Has anyone else experienced this? It happens at least every day or two.

Sure, see my answer from last Saturday: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-06/msg00698.html Gruß Jan -- Jury -- Twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/24/2017 08:37 AM, James Knott wrote:

On 06/24/2017 07:36 AM, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:

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Am Freitag, 23. Juni 2017, 18:05:31 CEST schrieb James Knott:

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Has anyone else experienced this? It happens at least every day or two. Sure, see my answer from last Saturday: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-06/msg00698.html

Gruß Jan I'll try that and see what happens.

tnx jk

That seems to be working. Now if only something could be done about having to restart plasma shell so often. tnx jk -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/30/2017 12:05 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* James Knott [06-30-17 11:57]:

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On 06/24/2017 08:37 AM, James Knott wrote:

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On 06/24/2017 07:36 AM, Jan Ritzerfeld wrote:

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Am Freitag, 23. Juni 2017, 18:05:31 CEST schrieb James Knott:

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Has anyone else experienced this? It happens at least every day or two. Sure, see my answer from last Saturday: https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2017-06/msg00698.html

Gruß Jan I'll try that and see what happens.

tnx jk

That seems to be working. Now if only something could be done about having to restart plasma shell so often. have you tried to determine the cause? have you filed a bug report describing your experience? do you hope someone else can determine your problem w/o access to your machine and no hints besides you saying plasma crashes?

Actually, yes. I discussed this a couple of months back and, IIRC, there was a bug report. Someone here provided some commands to restart plasma shell. I put them in a script that I run when necessary. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

* James Knott [06-30-17 12:47]:

On 06/30/2017 12:05 PM, Patrick Shanahan wrote: [...]

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That seems to be working. Now if only something could be done about having to restart plasma shell so often. have you tried to determine the cause? have you filed a bug report describing your experience? do you hope someone else can determine your problem w/o access to your machine and no hints besides you saying plasma crashes?

Actually, yes. I discussed this a couple of months back and, IIRC, there was a bug report. Someone here provided some commands to restart plasma shell. I put them in a script that I run when necessary.

so spend some of your time and help others help you. what bug report # discussed? restarting plasmashell is a work-a-round, somewhat like a round tuit. you have a problem, provide information about when it happens, what is running, what seems to make it happen, what *you* have tried that helps or does not help. -- (paka)Patrick Shanahan Plainfield, Indiana, USA @ptilopteri http://en.opensuse.org openSUSE Community Member facebook/ptilopteri Registered Linux User #207535 @ http://linuxcounter.net Photos: http://wahoo.no-ip.org/piwigo paka @ IRCnet freenode -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org

On 06/30/2017 10:25 AM, Patrick Shanahan wrote:

restarting plasmashell is a work-a-round, somewhat like a round tuit. you have a problem, provide information about when it happens, what is running, what seems to make it happen, what *you* have tried that helps or does not help.

Just to add my two cents to this topic.... I had this same problem in another distro, as did many people on that distro at the time. Switching from sddm to lightdm seemed to solve it. Install lightdm and either the lightdm-kde-greeter or the lightdm-gtk-greeter then systemctl enable lightdm.service systemctl stop sddm.service start lightdm.service systemctl disable sddm.service Then reboot to see that it all works. This solved it, and some where along the way since that time. KDE subsequently found and fixed the problem which turned out to be some invisible remnant of a crashed window overlaying the screen capturing mouse clicks and keystrokes. It was also more common among users of dual monitor systems. That distro is running Plasma 5.10.2 and KDE Frameworks 5.35 and Qt 5.9.0, all of which are much much newer than I have on Leap 42.2 which shows Plasma 5.8.6 and KDE Frameworks 5.26 and QT 5.6.1 Hint: run kinfocenter -- 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

2017-06-23 19:35 GMT-04:00 James Knott :

On 06/23/2017 06:22 PM, John Andersen wrote:

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Are you sure you are up to date on KDE updates? This use to be common, but its been months since this has happened.

You can usually do Alt-F2, then type into the little window: killall plasmashell & kstart plasmashell

I am familiar with that and even wrote a script to do it. However, this problem is much more recent and pressing Alt-F2 doesn't do anything. The only thing that gets me out is to shut KDE down entirely and log back in. However, it's only the desktop that locks up. Any running apps keep running. And I can even use NoMachine, from another computer, to access a Windows 10 virtual machine, even though I can't switch to it from my Linux desktop.

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I can confirm I see the same thing on an up to date 42.2 installation, pretty annoying... Regards, -- Ciro Iriarte http://iriarte.it -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org