Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >On Saturday 09 April 2005 05:11 am, Richard Fish wrote: > > >>Michael W. Holdeman wrote: >> >> >>>Suddenly after a porwe-failure on my laptop and a reboot, with what seemed >>>successful restart now after starting kde-3.4 the cpu load is really high >>>untill I get an error stating that there is a cpu overload having to do >>>with arts? >>>No sound in kde, has something to do with knotify. Anybody else have >>>anything here like this? >>> >>> >>Never saw this, but I suspect one of the sockets or temporary files that >>arts uses has been trashed. Take a look at ~/.xsession-errors, and see >>if arts is putting out any error messages that can give you a hint as to >>what is wrong. My other idea is to remove all of ~/.kde3.4/socket-* >>~/.kde3.4/tmp-* /tmp/kde-your-user-name and try again. >> >> >WO, havent checked that in a while! >Full of all kinds of errors!! > >Any suggestions? > >
Well, for the most part, ignore them. My .xsession-errors currently has 227 lines and my system is runni .... >There are already artsd objects registered, looking if they are active... >... cleaned 5 unused mcop global references. > >kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104 >kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1) >kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header read failed, errno=104 >kio (KIOConnection): ERROR: Header has invalid size (-1) > > This might be a problem. You mentioned that it happens when you login to KDE, and has something to do with KNotify. KNotify is the program that plays audio files when interesting events happen (startup, shutdown, minimizing windows, etc). My guess is your startup audio file has been corrupted, and is confusing the heck out of KNotify/artsd. So the first thing to do is to check the KDE control center->Sound & Multimedia->System Notifications, and see what audio file is being played for "KDE is starting up". On my system, this file is KDE_Startup_1.ogg, which I can play manually by running: # alsaplayer /usr/kde/3.4/share/sounds/KDE_Startup_1.ogg Actually, I have two copies of this file on my system, and I'm not really sure which one gets played...there is another in ~/.kde3.4/share/apps/kstyle/themes/original/sounds So, do a 'find /usr/kde ~/.kde* -name "KDE_Startup_1.ogg"' (replace with your actual startup file) and play anything you find. Both files play fine on my system, but on yours, I'll bet at least one is corrupt. If I am right, and it is the file in /usr/kde, re-emerging kdebase should fix in case you don't have a backup copy. You could also simply disable the startup sound. OTOH, I could be completely off-base and this will be no help at all. Hope it helps. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
