On 4/12/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 April 2006 01:45, Lord Sauron wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This happened once before in Kubuntu, though this time I was more
> > alert and know what I did right before this happened.  So what did
> > transpire?
> >
> > I sent my laptop into sleep mode via the popup menu on the battery
> > monitor in KDE.  It did this, however, when the machine came out of
> > sleep mode, there was no monitor.  It wasn't on.  I tried my basic set
> > of tricks: try and change the screen brightness; try and switch
> > monitors via the key combo on the laptop; close the lid and re-open
> > it; press the key combo to turn the monitor off; press the key combo
> > to go back to sleep mode (didn't work).
> >
> > Eventually I picked a button that did work: POWER.  The system shut
> > down normally!  After X11 died, it went back the the framebuffer and
> > acted like nothing had happened.
> >
> > However, right after this, KDE has been acting *really* slow.  Much
> > slower than it should.  # top revealed that artsd, xorg, and kded were
> > eating cpu time.  This is the same behaviour as on Kubuntu before.  I
> > suspect the cause was the same, however, I don't remember exactly so I
> > won't point fingers.
> >
> > Do any of you know what this is?  Do you think if I recompiled xorg,
> > kde, and arts if it'd fix the problem?  Or, even better, is there a
> > way to axe all the configuration settings and see if that fixes the
> > problem?  Please help, I think it's affecting Gnome as well (scary!)
>
> recompiling will fix NOTHING.

If the filesystem got corrupted it might do something... though in
retrospect not likely.

> There are a lot of temporary files in /tmp and ~ / remove them and see if the
> problem is still there.

Actually, I did # top and took a closer look...  my pagefile wasn't
mounted.  I fixed that...  I think a hibernate command axed the swap
partition.  mkswap and swapon then fixed that problem.  Oh well... 
it's what you get for toying with the (highly-experimental) ACPI
stuff.

> All KDE related configs are in ~/.kde3.5 (.kde3.4), so (re)moving that sets
> KDE back to its 'fresh' state.

Luckily I won't have to do that yet!  Back when I was using Kubuntu I
didn't know about mkswap and swapon, so I was rather mystified. 
However, I'm really happy I was able to find the problem.  Shows I'm
learning something : )

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