On 20 May 2020 17:56:29 CEST, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> Dale, >> >> The few times I have issues with "sddm-helper" is when I resume my >laptop from >> hibernate. (Not always, but occasionally) >> The issue I see is 100% CPU-usage and a black X-display. I can switch >to >> console (CTRL+ALT+F1), login as root and kill the offending >sddm-helper. >> It gets restarted automatically and I see no issue. >> >> Do you tend to lock your screen a lot? As it might be related to >screensavers. >> (I have a simple static lock-screen, nothing remotely fancy) >> >> Also, you can try killing "kill -9 sddm-helper" when it goes up and >see what >> happens next. >> >> Is there anything in the sddm-logs? >> Mine, for some reason, writes to /var/log/sddm.log >> >> Do you have anything special in your Xsession files and/or profiles >(incl. >> bash_profile and bashrc) that is non-default? >> >> Which login-theme do you use? >> >> -- >> Joost > >Well, I didn't know I could kill that thing. I been logging out and >back in which annoys the stuffing out of me. I have to close three >browsers, several file managers plus whatever else I am doing before I >can logout. Then I have to reopen all that when I log back in. On top >of that, I have to wait for a download to stop as well. Yea, it's >annoying, putting it mildly. lol I thought if I killed it, it would >take the whole GUI thingy with it . Since it is still chewing away, >makes me think about the Pacman days, I'll kill that thing in a few >minutes, after closing important stuff first just in case. > >I got the last several lines of sddm.log. Here it is complete with a >WW >in there, about three lines from the bottom. > > >[01:32:50.474] (II) DAEMON: Greeter session started successfully >[01:32:50.499] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Connect >[01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Message received from greeter: Login >[01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Reading from >"/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" >[01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Reading from >"/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" >[01:32:57.872] (II) DAEMON: Session >"/usr/share/xsessions/plasma.desktop" selected, command: >"/usr/bin/startplasma-x11" >[01:32:57.948] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting... >[01:32:57.948] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating... >[01:32:57.991] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse... >[01:32:57.991] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages >[01:32:57.997] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning. >[01:32:58.016] (II) DAEMON: Authenticated successfully >[01:32:58.152] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Closing session >[01:32:58.153] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended. >[01:32:58.153] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully >[01:32:58.153] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped. >[01:32:58.225] (II) HELPER: Starting: "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession >\"/usr/bin/startplasma-x11\"" >[01:32:58.225] (WW) HELPER: Could not open stderr to >"/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log" >[01:32:58.225] (II) HELPER: Adding cookie to "/home/dale/.Xauthority" >[01:32:58.245] (II) DAEMON: Session started >root@fireball / # > > > >So off I go to check into that file. I get this and change permissions >for the second ls. > > >root@fireball / # tail /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >-rw------- 1 root root 0 Mar 4 2019 >/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >root@fireball / # ls -al /home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >-rw------- 1 dale users 0 Mar 4 2019 >/home/dale/.local/share/sddm/xorg-session.log >root@fireball / # > > >As you can see, the first time it was owned by root, and is empty, >which >I bet requires it to be dale:user so I changed it. I bet it is >building >a log and keeping it in memory because it can't access the file to >write >it. I'm going to logout and see what it does. I'll finish when I get >back. :-D > >OK. Logged back in and now I get this in the sddm.log. > > >[10:45:28.213] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Starting... >[10:45:28.213] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Authenticating... >[10:45:28.253] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Preparing to converse... >[10:45:28.253] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Conversation with 1 messages >[10:45:28.259] (II) HELPER: [PAM] returning. >[10:45:28.287] (II) DAEMON: Authenticated successfully >[10:45:28.391] (II) HELPER: Starting: "/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession >\"/usr/bin/startplasma-x11\"" >[10:45:28.393] (II) HELPER: Adding cookie to "/home/dale/.Xauthority" >[10:45:28.400] (II) DAEMON: Session started >[10:45:28.416] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Closing session >[10:45:28.417] (II) HELPER: [PAM] Ended. >[10:45:28.418] (II) DAEMON: Auth: sddm-helper exited successfully >[10:45:28.418] (II) DAEMON: Greeter stopped. >root@fireball / # > > >I don't see any WW lines there. If I scroll up I can see the original >I >posted above but no WW since. Can we all say a prayer now???? > >I bet when I switched to sddm, it didn't change the permissions like it >should and that threw a wrench in the gears. I'll know for sure in a >few hours. It chewed through memory real fast after the last login. >Within just a very few hours, it was over 4GBs. It seems to stop >itself >around that number tho. I'm not sure what to think about that tho. > >I'll post back in a bit. Give it time to eat some Pacman dots. I >think >you got it tho. I really hope that was it. > >Dale > >:-) :-) > >P. S. Made eye Doctor appt today. Maybe this old goat will see better >in a couple months when new glasses come in. O_O
Really quick as on mobile. Killing "sddm-helper" doesn't kill my session when I do it. So you might not need to log off either. Just switch to root and hit it with kill -9 if it misbehaves -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
