On Samstag, 3. Mai 2008, Mick wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008, Philip Webb wrote: > > 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. > > Back on this machine today. I checked that I am not saving any KDE > sessions. I ran lsof on the console and saw that it was accessing kdm and > some X server files (as expected). Not clever enough to play tunes with > lsof - any particular strings that I should run? > > PS. I also remember that older KDE versions would shut down immediately, > but the last couple of versions take their time. > PPS. On my laptop I don't experience this delay, however, I am running xdm > with Fluxbox and manually run startkde in the very rare occasions that I > want to try something within KDE. So the delay could have something to do > with kdm?
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