kdeinit: kdesktop 100%cpu even after logout

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Wed November 6 2002 11:11 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Wed November 6 2002 10:37 pm, Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> > Hello,
>
> Actually I found in this list some loosely related problems with konqueror,
> and kicker.  The problem is that if you (using SuSE especially) update KDE
> the old files in /tmp don't appreciate it and don't go away.  after I went
> in and deleted ALL the files from /tmp I was able to login, logout, and see
> the process go away properly.
>
> Now, is it completely resolved?  Maybe.  But, either way I do have a work
> around until one is found.  BTW:  the buzilla number and link is:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48984
>
> According the the bug number above most, if not all, are using SuSE 8.0 or
> above.  One person even mentioned that the problem shows up over time,
> which makes me wonder if I have "fixed" it, or delayed it.

Well, I have found that the solution above only temporarily resolves the 
problem.  It appears again later.  One way to keep it away longer is to 
remove everything in /tmp and then log in as root into KDE.  This creates 
some of the directories with owner and group as root.  I am not sure what 
difference this makes but KDE complained to me that .ICE-unix wasn't root as 
it should be.

Has any one else found another clue to this issue?
It appears to me that KDE either isn't deleting files/dirs from /tmp that 
should be, or that it is deleting them too fast, when you log out.  (The 
killing the files too fast could cause a broken link, or pipe that would make 
the last process to die when logging out hang trying to die.)  And, that it 
isn't killing all the processes it should be.

The reason I say deleting them too fast is because when we first set up our 
Citrix farm at work we set it up to delete local profiles.  The problem was 
that with 4 processors the delete function happened faster than the copy back 
to their roaming profile location, which meant their profile would have 
partial information.  This would also hang the NT terminal server box, (but 
that's not hard to do anyway).

-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!

	"The act of faith is the obedience of the understanding to God revealing, and 
the product of that is the obedience of the will to God commanding."
	Matthew Henry, on Romans 1:5
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