Shortcuts stop working, application windows aren't showing anymore and the systray seems to freeze

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 25/01/16 14:09, Martin van Es wrote:
>     "kquitapp5 plasmashell" kills it, but "plasmashell &" doesn't bring
>     it up completely. It shows the desktop wallpaper and hangs there for
>     a while. No panel, no desktop icons, no nothing.
>
>     After about 40 seconds, the panel and icons come up.
>
>     This is SERIOUSLY broken :-/
>
>
> I have this when something is wrong with network while restarting plasma
> or when I have stale CIFS/NFS mounts not available.
> It defenitely sounds like a network timeout in any case.

Everything is local here. No network filesystems or anything like that.

And there seems to be several kuiserver and kded processes. It seems 
they increase by one every time I logout/login:

realnc at gentoo ~ $ ps aux | grep -i kui
realnc   21138  0.0  0.2 323732 47276 ?        S    02:10   0:00 
/usr/bin/kuiserver5
realnc   21640  0.0  0.2 323700 47224 ?        S    14:25   0:00 
/usr/bin/kuiserver5
realnc   22263  0.0  0.0 113896   964 pts/2    S+   14:30   0:00 grep 
--colour=auto -i kui
realnc at gentoo ~ $ ps aux | grep -i kded
realnc   21026  0.0  0.4 1167696 72300 ?       Sl   02:10   0:05 kded5 
[kdeinit5]
realnc   21531  0.0  0.0   8168   100 ?        S    14:25   0:00 
/usr/lib64/libexec/kf5/start_kdeinit --kded +kcminit_startup
realnc   21535  0.1  0.4 1164576 66308 ?       Sl   14:25   0:00 kded5 
[kdeinit5]
realnc   21617  0.0  0.1 359904 27168 ?        S    14:25   0:00 
kdeinit4: kded4 [kdeinit]
realnc   22265  0.0  0.0 113896   964 pts/2    S+   14:30   0:00 grep 
--colour=auto -i kded

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