[Konsole-devel] [Bug 122447] New: konsole windows sometimes freeze up

[Jesper Juhl]

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           Summary: konsole windows sometimes freeze up
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Slackware Packages
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: crash
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: jesper.juhl gmail com


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.1)
Installed from:    Slackware Packages
OS:                Linux

Sometimes konsole windows freeze up on me.

It doesn't matter if I'm using sepperate konsole windows or multiple tabs within a single one, sometimes one or more of them just freeze up.
Sometimes it happens when the window has been left alone for a while and when I come back to it it's frozen - nothing can be entered into it at all, only solution is to close it and start a new one. Sometimes it happens right after executing a command - you press enter, the command runs, then you try to enter something else and discover it's locked up.

I've tried starting konsole from a xterm window, just to see if it would dump something there before it locks up, but unfortunately that's not the case.
I've not found a reliable way to reproduce it unfortunately, but so far I think I can say with a good deal of confidence that if I open 8 konsole windows and/or tabs then at least one of them will freeze up on me within 2 hours.

To me this smells of a race condition somewhere, and the box is indeed running an SMP kernel on a dual-core Athlon 64 X2 4400+ (32bit kernel).

If there's anything I can do to help narrow down what's going on or any info I can provide that might help, then please let me know.