Felix Miata composed on 2016-04-29 21:33 (UTC-0400):
> Felix Miata composed on 2016-04-29 21:07 (UTC-0400):
>> Rex Dieter composed on 2016-04-29 05:36 (UTC-0500):
>>> Adam Williamson wrote:
>>>> On Thu, 2016-04-28 at 15:24 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
>>>>> Same problem on i865G host gx27c in freshly updated F24.
>>>>> > BTW, the restore previous session setting is not producing a
>>>>> restoring
>>>>> > of the Konsole session left open on session close, only an
empty
>>>>> > desktop.
>>>>> Konsole is restored on restart on gx27c, after having gotten it
>>>>> open via
>>>>> Alt-F2.
>>>> I filed a bug:
>>>>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1331593
>>>> if there was already one, though, please close as a dupe (and tag the
>>>> original with 'openqa'). Thanks!
>>> The symptoms are similar to when plasmashell deadlocks, so getting a
>>> backtrace from the presumably-deadlocked plasmashell process may be
>>> helpful
>>> in diagnosing what's going on.
>> In order to preserve limited / filesystem space, I tried minimally
>> following
>> the instructions at
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces by
>> installing
>> only gdb and plasma-workspace-debuginfo, but the instructions don't
>> say how
>> to find the coredump. The only one that looked right by name and
>> timestamp
>> is in /var/lib/systemd/coredump/core.plasmashell<blah>.lz4 (@23059K).
>> Gdb
>> complains about that file:
>> ....lz4 is not a core dump. File format not recognized.
>> Now what do I do?
> I found out how to disable core compression and generated a new core,
> except
> I got 5 KDE cores[1] rather than one. I tried on the one with
> plasmashell in
> the name, and gdb complains "No symbol table info available over and
> over and
> waits on me to tell it what next. :-(
> [1] drkonqi, kactivitymanager, kactivitymanager, klauncher, plasmashell
I attached gdb to the running plasmashell, and gdb complains I need to
use up 80% of the size of the whole / filesystem, which currently has
30% free, installing 205 packages. There's barely enough freespace to
download the 1.2G of packages, and clearly too little room to install them.