[Nepomuk] Nepomuk linked to shutdown problems and file system corruption in Ubuntu (was Fwd: [Bug 1053783] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Stalled shutdown after having had KAlarm opened; with package info.

Tim Josling tim.josling at gmail.com
Mon Feb 11 22:15:34 UTC 2013


Just to let you know that the word is out that to prevent file system
corruption in Ubuntu, you need to turn off nepomuk. See below. The
problem is triggered if you use Kalarm, even if you shut Kalarm down,
nepomuk stays alive and seems to prevent file systems from being
unmounted on shutdown.

Thought you guys might be interested.

Tim Josling

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From: Nelly <1053783 at bugs.launchpad.net>
Date: Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:32 PM
Subject: [Bug 1053783] Re: Ubuntu 12.04 - Stalled shutdown after
having had KAlarm opened; with package info.
To: tim.josling at gmail.com


I also have this bug.
I use KAlarm and my computer with Ubuntu 12.04 (Gnome desktop) took
several minutes to shutdown.

Link http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1764048 gave me the hint
how to solve this problem. This link contains methods to prevent te
starting up of nepomuk and akonadi in 3 steps.
If you don't want to use KAlarm, it might be safe to apply all three
steps. However, doing so, KAlarm could not be used. It asked to
start-up akonadi first. So I tried what would happen if I only used
the two steps preventing the (complete) start-up of nepomuk, and that
worked great. KAlarm works and Ubuntu 12.04 shuts down within a few
seconds. The steps to apply are:

1. Add the following lines to ~/.kde/share/config/nepomukserverrc (and
their sections if they don't exist) (change the value from "true" to
"false" if they do exist and are set on "true";

[Basic Settings]
Start Nepomuk=false

[Service-nepomukmigration1]
autostart=false

[Service-nepomukstrigiservice]
autostart=false

2. Remove the file /usr/share/autostart/nepomukcontroller.desktop, if it
exists.

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Title:
  Ubuntu 12.04 - Stalled shutdown after having had KAlarm opened; with
  package info.

Status in “gnome-session” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  In Ubuntu 12.04, the shutdown is stalling - for about 2 minutes -
but only on occasions when I have opened - and then quit - KAlarm.
  A window pops up Stating that, 'A Program is still running'; Unknown
(not responding); and, there are 3 buttons to choose: 'Lock Screen',
'Cancel' and 'Shutdown Anyway'.

  Initial report was Bug #1053779 but had no package information.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: gnome-session-bin 3.2.1-0ubuntu8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic-pae 3.2.27
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic-pae i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Fri Sep 21 13:22:35 2012
  ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-session
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release
i386 (20120423)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_AU:en
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: gnome-session
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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