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On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 7:06 AM Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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> On 25/4/21 11:34 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> > On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au> wrote: |
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> >> Hi all, |
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> >> A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding |
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> > pods of |
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> >> Dolphins....... |
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> [snip] |
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> ... |
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> ... |
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> [snip] |
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> > To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file. |
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> > What does your .config/dolphinrc file look like? |
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> > At the level of KDE in general I have no idea what config file/files it |
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> > looks at when configuring the complete desktop environment but that |
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would |
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> > be the next thing I'd go looking for. |
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> > I'm assuming (bad idea) that you've done a very simple experiment like |
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> > closing all the dolphin windows and immediately logging out of KDE? |
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> > - Mark |
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> Mark, |
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> Thanks for the suggestion. It wasn't actually dolphinrc but the |
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> ~/.config/session dir that contained the problem. It appears that just |
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> during my normal day to day usage of the machine, I would open Dolphin, |
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> use it, then close it, rinse, repeat. The GUI would close down but some |
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> part of Dolphin would remain running. This resulted in, the time I |
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> finally spotted this, 28 instances of this "zombie" running. |
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> When the machine was shutdown at the end of the day, these 20 odd |
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> zombies would write a file into "session" for start up next time - which |
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> they in turn did the next time the machine started up, but this time as |
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> the full GUI + zombie. |
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> Cleaning out session and killing all of the zombies fixed the |
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problem. |
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> Regards, |
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> Andrew |
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Andrew, |
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I'm glad you found the root cause and provided back information that |
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should be quite helpful should anyone else who runs into this issue. |
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Cheers, |
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Mark |