Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: kde
Hi I know Feisty is still very much pre-release software. However in the
interests of testing I thought I should share my experiences.
First let me explain the conditions of my install so that potentially
they can be recreated.
I installed Feisty initially on my Intel Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM
and 100GB hard drive.
Because of my experiences over the years I have learned that if I ever
want to compile my own software (which I occasionally do when I can't
find a binary in the repositories) it is a good idea to install as many
development libraries as possible, otherwise (a bit like missing dll's
in Windows) it is likely you are always going to encounter a missing
library at some point or other.
I also like to have a full and complete working KDE environment - so I
will tend to install everything related to KDE on the repositories
except unneeded language packs and debug libraries.
Having done this since much of my interest is in multi media - I will
also tend to install as many codecs and multi media type packages as
possible too.
However having fulfilled all of these conditions, it seems that KDE has
become very unresponsive.
For example when starting up it can take between 5 and 7 minutes to go
from the KDE login screen until I finally reach the desktop. Emptying
the recycle bin takes an age - maybe 7 minutes plus, even if there is
only one single small text file in it. Doing "sudo knoqueror" (or "kdesu
konqueror") will bring up a konqueror Window - but it will often take an
age to get a full listing of a directory's contents (for example opening
up the / directory as su can cause konqueror to take between 5 and 10
minutes to show the full contents of the root folder). Smaller folders
are similarly affected. (Although they are less so as an ordinary user).
I also cannot reliably cleanly log out of a KDE session and log back in.
If I try this will cause my attempt to log back into KDE again to hang
once more for an unbearably long time. Usually this does sort itself out
and I do eventually get to my desktop (again after 5+ minutes) but KDE
behaves very sluggishly and unresponsively - almost as though all of my
laptop's memory (1GB) was being used up and KDE was struggling to gain
access to enough resources to allow me to do anything very useful with
it.
This is resolved somewhat however, if instead of simply logging out and
back in again, I choose to reboot instead. Then I can reliably enter a
KDE session - although again only with all of the issues I have
described above.
I have not installed any KDE 4x packages my KDE version is 3.5.5
** Affects: meta-kde (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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KDE in Feisty Fawn is Very Unstable/Unresponsive
https://launchpad.net/bugs/75968
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