Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-07 Thread Walter Cazzola
Hi Ed, On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Yes, it can be a time consuming process. That is why I keep a weekly snapshot of my .kde and .config directory structure. And because something similar happened to me a few years ago. I gave up on try to track it down and just blew away those dire

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 9:01 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Exactly what happened to me but only after a recent update. I hope to > find the reason but I suspect it is related to KDE session restore or > the nouveau driver. I always use "End current session" and "Start with an empty session". And I

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Ralf Corsepius
On 09/04/2014 05:31 PM, Walter Cazzola wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 03:51:06 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again)

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Temlakos wrote: That's an interesting problem. KDE itself hasn't ever caused me anyh problem. Though I recently upgraded to a 2009-vintage Intel Core 2 Quad system with 8 GB of RAM. What sort of hardware is the OP running K on? (Remember: K is the Windows analogue.) my

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Sudhir Khanger wrote: On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 03:51:06 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while.

Re: [Fedora] Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ian Malone wrote: One thing it may be worth looking at is whether a ls on your home directory works (the normal aliased ls with colour coding meaning it needs to stat things). it takes a little (just noticeable not slow: it is a dir with more than 300 files) but it works.

Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Temlakos
On 09/04/2014 07:33 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote: On 03/09/14 16:51, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and s

Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Ahmad Samir
On 03/09/14 16:51, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is really slow to start (Today

Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Sudhir Khanger
On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 03:51:06 PM Walter Cazzola wrote: > Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is > really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and > sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while. I don't have any problems but my Fedor

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Ian Malone
On 4 September 2014 10:21, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 09/04/14 17:03, Walter Cazzola wrote: >> Hi Ed, >> you are right here comes the info you suggested to provide. >> >>> Step 2 - Create a totally new user and login as the new user to see if >>> that user exhibits the same issue. >> >> I've tried to

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/04/14 17:03, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Hi Ed, > you are right here comes the info you suggested to provide. > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> Step 0 - Don't just tell the list there is a dependency issue for a >> downgrade. Show the list what the issue is. > > unfortunately I can'

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
Hi Ed, you are right here comes the info you suggested to provide. On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Ed Greshko wrote: Step 0 - Don't just tell the list there is a dependency issue for a downgrade. Show the list what the issue is. unfortunately I can't reproduce the dependency issue since I have done a fu

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Tod Merley wrote: Some basic tools to learn to find the problem (man pages for each but search for tutorials): journalctl The only strage things I've found in the jounarlctl for the today's boot are: Sep 04 09:18:58 colord[969]: (colord:969): Cd-WARNING **: failed to

Re: [Fedora] Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-04 Thread Walter Cazzola
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014, Mike Chambers wrote: On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 15:51 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: Dear Fedora Experts, I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. Two days ago I have updated my system th

Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-03 Thread Mike Chambers
On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 15:51 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora Experts, > I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is > running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. > > Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is > r

Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-03 Thread Ed Greshko
On 09/03/14 21:51, Walter Cazzola wrote: > Dear Fedora Experts, > I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is > running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. > > Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is > really slow to sta

Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-03 Thread Tod Merley
Some basic tools to learn to find the problem (man pages for each but search for tutorials): journalctl dmesg top Then an interesting article I recently ran across: http://debloper.blogspot.com/2013/12/optimizing-fedora-startup-performance.html Have fun! On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:51 AM, Walt

KDE became a sort of sloth

2014-09-03 Thread Walter Cazzola
Dear Fedora Experts, I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble. Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) an