On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:06 AM Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: > > On 25/4/21 11:34 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe <a...@wht.com.au> wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding > > pods of > >> Dolphins....... > > [snip] > ... > ... > [snip] > > > > > To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file. > > > > What does your .config/dolphinrc file look like? > > > > At the level of KDE in general I have no idea what config file/files it > > looks at when configuring the complete desktop environment but that would > > be the next thing I'd go looking for. > > > > I'm assuming (bad idea) that you've done a very simple experiment like > > closing all the dolphin windows and immediately logging out of KDE? > > > > - Mark > > > Mark, > Thanks for the suggestion. It wasn't actually dolphinrc but the > ~/.config/session dir that contained the problem. It appears that just > during my normal day to day usage of the machine, I would open Dolphin, > use it, then close it, rinse, repeat. The GUI would close down but some > part of Dolphin would remain running. This resulted in, the time I > finally spotted this, 28 instances of this "zombie" running. > > When the machine was shutdown at the end of the day, these 20 odd > zombies would write a file into "session" for start up next time - which > they in turn did the next time the machine started up, but this time as > the full GUI + zombie. > > Cleaning out session and killing all of the zombies fixed the problem. > > Regards, > Andrew
Andrew, I'm glad you found the root cause and provided back information that should be quite helpful should anyone else who runs into this issue. Cheers, Mark
