On 04/30/2012 03:32 PM, Will Stephenson wrote:
On Monday 30 April 2012 10:30:12 George Olson wrote:
I run rsync in a console (BASH) from time to time, usually from a script file. I have found that on my KDE 4.8.2 box that KDE hangs up in the following way from time to time. It won't switch desktops when I click or use the Alt-function key key stroke, it won't show the popups from plasmoids, and it won't switch applications using alt-tab or clicking on them. In effect, it makes multi-tasking impossible for the duration of the rsync.
See my conversation with Patrick Shanahan last week on your "KDE Problem" thread - see if kded4 will respond to "qdbus org.kde.kded /kded" during the hang-up period. I would be very interested to know if the hanging is triggered by heavy i/o from eg rsync.
Ok, I tried that. I was running the rsync script in a tty, then after it starts I switch back to the desktop, and with a konsole open typed "qdbus org.kde.kded /kded" When I type that I do get a list of services, and it does not hang. However, while the rsync is running in a tty, I am still unable to alt-tab between open applications, the open konsole and anything else I have open, and neither am I able to click on the open application in the task manager to bring it to focus when the rsync is running. Another kind of funny thing is that right after I stop the rsync, and then in konsole type in the qdbus command again right away, it hangs for a second before giving the list of services. But after that it if I type it a 3rd or 4th time, it does not hang at all and just gives a list of services. G -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org