On 4 September 2014 10:21, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote:
> On 09/04/14 17:03, Walter Cazzola wrote:
>> Hi Ed,
>> you are right here comes the info you suggested to provide.
>>

>>> Step 2 - Create a totally new user and login as the new user to see if
>>> that user exhibits the same issue.
>>
>> I've tried to run KDE as root user without any problem. I never use KDE
>> as root so nothing was open and configurated so the issue is related to
>> something on my user but nothing has canged before and after the update
>> in my configuration.
>>
>> Any hints?
>>
>
> First off, I prefer to create a new user and test with that as opposed to 
> using root.  So, I really would do that first.
> But, once you've confirmed that it is specific to your user I would do 
> something like the following to narrow things down.  (Hard to be very 
> specific since I don't know if you are using saved sessions or are auto 
> starting applications).
>
> I would login as a different user, or login to a terminal session, to make 
> sure the KDE is not running for the problem account.  Then, I would move the 
> .kde/share directory to .kde/share-save or whatever and then try to login.  
> If that fixes the problem then I'd go about narrowing down what may be 
> causing the trouble in that directory structure.
>

One thing it may be worth looking at is whether a ls on your home
directory works (the normal aliased ls with colour coding meaning it
needs to stat things). I've sometimes found KDE hangs at the
'icons'/splash stage and it's invariably because of a link in my home
directory to a mount point which is timing out.

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