From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 8 18:33:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A02D106564A for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from ebb.errno.com (ebb.errno.com [69.12.149.25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50E258FC0C for ; Mon, 8 Jun 2009 18:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Received: from trouble.errno.com (trouble.errno.com [10.0.0.248]) (authenticated bits=0) by ebb.errno.com (8.13.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id n58IXJpQ008983 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:33:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sam@freebsd.org) Message-ID: <4A2D596F.9050508@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 11:33:19 -0700 From: Sam Leffler Organization: FreeBSD Project User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090411) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Petter Selasky References: <200906081801.17477.hselasky@c2i.net> In-Reply-To: <200906081801.17477.hselasky@c2i.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-DCC--Metrics: ebb.errno.com; whitelist Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: KDE4 on FreeBSD (was: KDE4 and input events) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:33:24 -0000 Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > Hi, > > During the last couple of weeks I've seen several posts about input > devices freezing. I'm not sure if I have a solution for it, but it seems > like there is a software bug there. > > Starting up kde4 as a non-root user leaded to the following strange > situation: > > kded4 (KDE 4.2.4) was constanly waiting on "select" using 30% CPU while > one zombie process was present. > > Solution: killall -kill kded4 > > After that my system was behaving normal. > > I was not able to figure out if this is a kernel race or userland race. > I have hit numerous kde4 issues on head. Ever since upgrading from kde3 the akonadi server will not startup and I've not figured out why (best guess is it's failing to register w/ dbus but could also be mysql-related). apps randomly go into a "hard run" for extended periods of time (especially thunderbird). firefox3 does not work (best guess was a dns problem) but konqueror does (firefox2 works better but the google search box is inoperative--perhaps same dns issue). And lots of other stuff. I'm too busy w/ other stuff to chase issues but would work with someone familiar w/ kde4 to diagnose. FWIW this is a dual-amd64 install that used to work fine w/ kde3. Sam