Recently KDE (3.4) has been hanging on startup, usually when the startup screen is in the "restoring session" section (at various percentages). I discovered that if I deleted the file ~/.kde-gentoo/share/config/ksmserverrc file (my KDEHOME environment variable is set to ~/.kde-gentoo), I could then kill the X-server (with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace) and log in. However, the next time I logged in, I'd have the same problem. I eventually discovered that in the KDE control center (KDE Components > Session Manager) I could save the session manually (by choosing Restore manually saved session under On Login; one can then save the session on the KDE menu) and did some experiments. I discovered that if there was more than one konsole in the session (not counting kwin, which always seems to be added), I'd get the hang. (The various other apps I tried adding included kppp, kbiff, xemacs and xosview.) For now, I've disabled the session manager (Start with empty session in KDE control center) and start my initial applications with a script in the Autostart directory. But this is less convenient (and obviously does not restore my previous session). Please advise of any kde files it would be useful to see to analyze the problem. emerge info gives: Portage 2.0.51.22-r1 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r1, 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.11-gentoo-r8 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.12 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.10 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.18-r1 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-g -O2" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-g -O2" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks fixpackages nostrip sandbox sfperms strict userpriv" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.osuosl.org/ ftp://gentoo.ccccom.com ftp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.ccccom.com" LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL="en_US.UTF-8" LINGUAS="en ja" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X Xaw3d aalib alsa apm arts avi berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts canna cdr cjk crypt cups curl debug doc dvd emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran freetype freewnn gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 java joystick jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad maildir mbox mikmod mng mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mule ncurses nls noantlr nobcel nobeanutils nobsh nocommonslogging nocommonsnet nodrm nojdepend nojsch nojython nolog4j nooro noregexp norhino noxalan noxerces ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png python qt quicktime readline ruby scanner sdl slang speex spell sse ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb vorbis wmf xine xinerama xml xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_matrox linguas_en linguas_ja userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS
Oops, it looks like having ksmserverrc not start anything may not be relevant. With my current set up, I just had another hang. I killed the X-server, and tried logging in again, and there was no hang. Any thoughts on how I could track this down would be welcome.
I tried all the things mentioned in bug #99794. Removing files and re-emerging did no good. Starting with a new user did seem to help (see below), but of course is unacceptable as a long-term solution. I took small steps toward changing the new user toward my KDE settings, and the first time got a hang was after changing the system notifications so the kwin used sound, which seems to be set in ~/.kde/share/config/kwin.eventsrc. I deleted that file from my existing users' setup, and haven't had any hangs. HOWEVER, the problem is very sporadic. I got the hang several times in a row sometimes, then not at all several times. Other times it will alternate (problem one time, no problem the next). I think there may be a race condition, perhaps involving notify trying to produce a sound before arts is working or something like that. Any hints as to how to track this down for sure would be appreciated (and I do not consider the problem FIXED, so please don't mark this bug as such).
Created attachment 64320 [details] kwin.eventrc file that may (or may not) cause problems (sometimes)
I find that if I choose 'KDE 3.3.2 session' when logging in, the problem goes away. So I have a work-around for now, but something seems to be wrong with KDE 3.4.1. I'm assuming from the lack of response here that no one has any ideas on how to help me debug this. So should I just go ahead an put a bug in on the KDE bugzilla?
It appears this is the same as KDE bug #102046 <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102046>.
FYI, this appears fixed in kde 3.5. At least I'm not having the problem any more, and the referenced KDE bug indicates the problem was found and fixed.
O.k., resolving as fixed
