080419 Volker Armin Hemmann & Mick discussed: M> a box running vanilla KDE is taking an awful long time M> to exit the KDE session when I shutdown. VAH> lsof & grep can tell you which files are accessed. VAH> Maybe it takes a looong time writing to kdm.log VAH> something that sometimes make my shutdowns extremely slow. M> How do you mean I need to run lsof? VAH> Ctrl+Alt+F1 to switch to a console quickly while KDE is shutting down VAH> and run it from there as root. lsof shows the open files. In my case, VAH> when shutting down hangs for ages it is always accessing kdm.log. VAH> But your problem might me be something completly different. VAH> Are you saving sessions?
I've had the same problem for some time. There was 1 version of KDE (perhaps 3.5.6/7) which didn't do it, but then it started again (now 3.5.9). It saves 11 apps on 10 desktops, but that shouldn't be taking so long on a fast machine: after all, it compiles Kdelibs in 17 min ! In my case, it isn't kdm.log , as I don't have Kdm installed (I use 'startx' from a raw command-line after booting). One way to find out more would be to file a bug with KDE, but I'ld rather not waste their time, if anyone has further advice. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban & Community Studies TRANSIT `-O----------O---' University of Toronto -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list