https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=413615
--- Comment #6 from Mircea Kitsune <sonichedgehog_hyperblas...@yahoo.com> --- I just discovered another important clue related to this issue. It's not just the sensors that are freezing: Other processes are too. I've been noticing this since I switched motherboards, but was convinced it was an entirely unrelated problem. I just now spotted that new applications will not start up while the sensors are frozen, but will start the moment they unfreeze. Some practical examples: If I open a new tab in Firefox which requires opening a new Web process, Firefox will freeze during the 5 second period that sensors don't update. Or if I write "sudo zypper dup" in the console to do an update, my cursor moves to the next line when pressing enter, but nothing happens if the sensors are frozen at that time... the line asking me to input my password appears the moment they unfreeze. It also appears I can't close certain applications during a freeze: If I try closing Dolphin in such a moment, the window becomes gray and I'm asked if I want to terminate the unresponsive process... however it disappears and Dolphin closes normally at unfreeze. So it seems something is blocking both the hardware sensors and some processes starting up or shutting down, though it seems not to affect processes that are already running. What could cause such strange behavior? Traditionally those things used to happen due to the disk I/O scheduler causing processes to go into disk sleep mode, but nothing seems to be using the hard drive while the problem occurs nor does KSysGuard show affected processes as being in "disk sleep". I already disabled SWAP with "swapoff -a" and it's not related to it. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
