Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
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Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
Well, I renamed .kde to .kde_bad and .gconfd to .gconfd_bad, and removed /tmp/orbit-*. That seems to have cleared up all of my problems. Thanks for all the suggestions and the help. Shawn asked, > Are you up-to-date with patches from RedHat? The answer to that is yes. ;-) I run the update manager a couple of times a week, just to be sure. Shawn also asked, > Have you installed a non-RedHat gnome? > If so, you'll want to get it up-to-date. Again, yes and yes. I've got Ximian GNOME on my system, though I generally use KDE as my desktop (for various reasons which I know about and which I'm really too lazy to research at this point, Ximian's development version of GNOME 2.0 is unstable on my system); it's up to date. I don't know why the problem began in the first place, unless some process went out of control while I was away. But I think that my other problems came about, actually, because I was experimenting with a wonky installation of GNOME 2.0, and that probably messed up my gconfd files which caused all of the problems. So renaming those configuration directories has helped. And I've got Evolution running again. Again, thanks for the help. Off to do some heavy research now. Oh, and just for the record... while my Linux box was down, I had to resort to using my company's laptop, which has WinXP on it. Yes, the rumors are true. WinXP sucks. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K ICQ: 11646404 Yahoo!: rscrawford MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "It is only with the heart that we see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery vi vi vi - the editor of the beast ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 02:09:07PM -0800, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> Here is the output of "df -h".
looks fine.
> Here is the output of "free". Honestly, I don't know what I should be
> looking for (I know, that's a lot of points off my geek score), but 3036
> under the "free" column looks kinda low to me.
>
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
> Mem:255104 252068 3036 4536 9532
> -/+ buffers/cache: 242000 13104
> Swap: 530104 442604 87500
You'll want to look at the cached column too. It's normal for a Linux
system to report little "free" memory. Your free+cached is low for a
system that isn't doing much.
> ...and finally, the first few lines produced by "top". If I'm reading
> this right, gconfd-2 is eating up a lot of processor cycles, even though
> I'm using KDE and not GNOME. But that's only if I'm reading it right.
>
> 10377 rscrawfo 15 0 473M 81M16 D 0.9 32.5 1:30 gconfd-2
> 5 root 15 0 00 0 SW0.5 0.0 11:00 kswapd
> 10641 rscrawfo 13 0 836 800 616 R 0.3 0.3 0:00 top
> 1 root 8 0 108 6040 S 0.0 0.0 0:05 init
> 2 root 8 0 00 0 SW0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd
> 3 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00
> ksoftirqd_CPU0
> 4 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00
> ksoftirqd_CPU1
That doesn't look right to me. Gconfd doesn't appear to be eating up an
undue amount of CPU, but it's definitely being piggish on the RAM.
I would try the earlier suggestion to rename ~/.kde, and amend that to
include renaming ~/.gconf{d}
Also, I cleared up an X problem once by removing /tmp/orbit*
-ta
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Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 02:09 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: [df output snipped] > Here is the output of "free". Honestly, I don't know what I should be > looking for (I know, that's a lot of points off my geek score), but 3036 > under the "free" column looks kinda low to me. > > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem:255104 252068 3036 4536 9532 > -/+ buffers/cache: 242000 13104 > Swap: 530104 442604 87500 The 3036 isn't necessarily bad, but you're also used up 80% of your swap space! > ...and finally, the first few lines produced by "top". If I'm reading > this right, gconfd-2 is eating up a lot of processor cycles, even though > I'm using KDE and not GNOME. But that's only if I'm reading it right. > > 10377 rscrawfo 15 0 473M 81M16 D 0.9 32.5 1:30 gconfd-2 %CPU is 0.9, %MEM is 32.5. gconfd-2 has eaten a lot of memory. Also, the "D" indicates the process is in an uninterruptible sleep--if it's still that way, the process is stuck. The slowness you are experiencing is probably due to swapping. (Are you hearing lots of disk activity when you try to do anything?) gconfd is a gnome registry-like utility. So, the question is, why is it eatting up so much memory, what's it doing, and why does it keep doing it through repeated logouts, logins, etc.? I see at least one bug report in the gnome bugzilla regarding a bad memory leak in gconfd--but it fills /var/log/messages with lots of stuff. Is there any corroborating evidence in /var/log/messages, or /var/log/XFree86.0.log? Are you up-to-date with patches from RedHat? That would be step one. Have you installed a non-RedHat gnome? If so, you'll want to get it up-to-date. shawn. ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
Here is the output of "df -h". Things look pretty normal to me here. Lucien is my laptop that serves as an ad-hoc server at home, and Training-pc4 is the laptop my company gave me. ;-) FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda2 7.9G 6.9G 704M 91% / /dev/hda7 10G 5.2G 4.4G 54% /home /dev/hda6 4.0G 637M 3.3G 16% /u1 none 125M 0 124M 0% /dev/shm //lucien/lucien_c 4.0G 3.0G 1.0G 73% /luc_docs //Training-pc4/laptopdocs 19G 6.0G 12G 32% /laptop Here is the output of "free". Honestly, I don't know what I should be looking for (I know, that's a lot of points off my geek score), but 3036 under the "free" column looks kinda low to me. total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem:255104 252068 3036 4536 9532 -/+ buffers/cache: 242000 13104 Swap: 530104 442604 87500 ...and finally, the first few lines produced by "top". If I'm reading this right, gconfd-2 is eating up a lot of processor cycles, even though I'm using KDE and not GNOME. But that's only if I'm reading it right. 10377 rscrawfo 15 0 473M 81M16 D 0.9 32.5 1:30 gconfd-2 5 root 15 0 00 0 SW0.5 0.0 11:00 kswapd 10641 rscrawfo 13 0 836 800 616 R 0.3 0.3 0:00 top 1 root 8 0 108 6040 S 0.0 0.0 0:05 init 2 root 8 0 00 0 SW0.0 0.0 0:00 keventd 3 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU0 4 root 19 19 00 0 SWN 0.0 0.0 0:00 ksoftirqd_CPU1 For what it's worth, my computer is a dual-processor Pentium-III, 866MHz, with 256M of RAM and 20GB hard drive space (well, 40GB, since 20GB of that is taken up with my Win2K installation -- I really ought to do something about that some day). Still soliciting suggestions... Bill Kendrick wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:48:39AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: Check if you're running out of memory (free), disk space (df) or if something is hogging the CPU (top). I was going to suggest checking 'df', too. Melissa's system once acted quite wonky (couldn't log in from XDM). It ended up being that / was full because lpd or someone kept complaining into /var/log/messages every 5 minutes. Her tiny (at the time) hard disk filled up, and since so many things expect to be able to dump things in /tmp, they all started dying strangely. We killed the lpd and eventually stuck another 10GB drive in, and it's been fine since. ;) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:28 am, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I came back from a week-long business trip in Santa Barbara to find that > my RH7.2 box is acting kinda weird. You might try subscribing to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] While I have not been following the issue I've noticed (as I've been deleting the posts) that there have been complaints similar to yours. Some people feel that KDE is not working that well on Red Hat right now. There are people on that list that can help you out. Bob ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 08:48:39AM -0800, Rod Roark wrote: > Check if you're running out of memory (free), disk space > (df) or if something is hogging the CPU (top). I was going to suggest checking 'df', too. Melissa's system once acted quite wonky (couldn't log in from XDM). It ended up being that / was full because lpd or someone kept complaining into /var/log/messages every 5 minutes. Her tiny (at the time) hard disk filled up, and since so many things expect to be able to dump things in /tmp, they all started dying strangely. We killed the lpd and eventually stuck another 10GB drive in, and it's been fine since. ;) -bill! ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
Re: [vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?
Check if you're running out of memory (free), disk space (df) or if something is hogging the CPU (top). If that all looks OK, try shutting down KDE and renaming ~/.kde to something else, which will make it treat you as a brand-new user. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:28 am, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > I came back from a week-long business trip in Santa Barbara to find that > my RH7.2 box is acting kinda weird. Normally, I leave it up and running > when I'm gone, since I feel comfortable with my firewall setup* and so I > can log in and move some files around in case I decide to work on a > story while on the road. When I came back, I logged into my computer to > find the following... > > 1. KDE is broken. Or something. In the taskbar, the icons for running > programs no longer display the name of the program, if that makes sense. > > 2. More seriously, I can't access anything from the KDE menu. When I > try clicking on the menu icon, KDE slows down glacially for several > minutes before I can start using anything again. And the menu never > shows up. The same thing happens if I try right-clicking on the desktop. > > 3. Sometimes, KDE just freezes. Kaput. I'm used to this sort of thing > from Windows, but my Linux box has been nice and stable ever since I > replaced my hard drive. But this morning I stepped away from my > computer to get some breakfast, and came back to find that my > screensaver was paused, and nothing I could do -- whether moving the > mouse or clicking the mouse or typing on the keyboard -- could get > things going again. > > I'd love to upgrade to KDE 3.01 but haven't a clue how to go about doing > that (I admit, I still consider myself a newbie); GNOME 2.0 is > unreliable on my computer; and I'm not sure how to reinstall from my > source disks without zarking LILO. > > I can fix most of the problems on my computer without any serious issues > (getting MySQL to play with PHP and Apache on my box was a challenge, > but fun!) but X and window managers, while I like using them, have me > flummoxed. > > Anyone have any suggestions? > > Richard > > > * For what it's worth, I've poked around on my system as much as I can > and I can't find any evidence that my system was hacked into while I was > gone; and that was the explanation I'd come up with for why my system > started acting so weird while I was gone. That, and hard drive issues. > Which is not a possibility I'm willing to entertain just yet if I can > at all avoid it. ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
