Session mismanagement

[Benjamin Meyer]

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On Tuesday 30 September 2003 4:40 am, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Tuesday 30 of September 2003 08:14, Ian Reinhart Geiser wrote:
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> > Hi,
> > 	Me and my 798 session files would like to know whats going on here...
> > This came to head when I was trying to figure out why randomly gimp would
> > start a few instances every time i logged in.  Well I decided I would
> > remove it from my session directory, since it usually gets filled up over
> > a few weeks.... Well in the last 3 weeks I have generated 798 files in
> > there. A few KSirc, a whole mess of konsoles (none actually appear at
> > login), 648 konqis, and about 3 kwalletmanagers.
> >
> > 	Now is this normal?

If you are running 3.1, yes

>  Not really, but it's not surprising either. It usually happens when you
> don't exit KDE cleanly. Does it happen for you also when cleanly exiting
> KDE? That'd be a bug somewhere in ksmserver then. But I just logged in and
> out a few times, and the only files in the directory are from the last
> session.

It isn't actually a bugn in ksm, but in konq (kdeinit).  You will notice that 
before you exit that there are in fact 648 konqs running :)  I have been 
encountering this bug for about a year now.  On a small memory machine it 
simply makes me remember to log out every other day.

> > Should we maby provide a way to clean things up?
> >
> > Any ideas would be nice.
>
>  I think ksmserver should know about all session files that are still
> important, as it's ksmserver who removes the no longer used files. If you
> file a report at b.k.o, I might have a look somewhen, but I don't consider
> this that important.

I am fairly sure that it is a kdeinit bug.  When I log out with ~100 konq in 
the background and then log in close all of them and log out/in it is all 
clear.

- -Benjamin Meyer

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