Re: [gentoo-user] KDE slow shutdown

[Mick]

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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Regards,
Mick