Glenn Holmer wrote:
On 09/17/2015 08:44 AM, George Avrunin wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2015 08:48:51 -0500, Glenn Holmer <shadowm(a)lyonlabs.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On 09/15/2015 11:52 PM, Robin Laing wrote:
>>> Have had similar issues on a machine and in all cases it is the kde bug
>>> reporter that has locked the session applications. Open a tty session
>>> and kill it and everything works as expected.
>>>
>>> I cannot remember the application at this second.
>>
>> Anybody who can? Is there a bug report against this?
>
> When I got the "near freeze" yesterday, I tried killing drkonqi. That
> seemed
> to do the trick. Robin, is that the program you mean?
Dropping back to console and issuing "killall -9 drkonqi" when Plasma 5
did its daily freeze just now allowed the desktop to recover.
So this is the real problem behind the freeze? The crash is not a good
thing of course, but why does drkonqi whack the machine like this?
Based on these findings (excellent detective work!), I've opened a bug to
track it at
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1264486
-- rex