Re: [gentoo-user] KDE weirdness after upgrade past Sunday.

[Dale]

james wrote:
>
> Hello Dale,
>
> Truthfully, I learned, after much pain, decades ago, to keep at least
> (2) working gentoo systems, just to avoid catastrophic situations....
>
> Used PC's, if running a minimalistic desktop, are pretty fast. Cross
> compile and copy over the updates, or there are many ways to keep old
> gentoo systems, active.
>
> I also picked up a recent laptop, with a 1G traditional Hard Drive,
> for under $500.00. It's way faster than my '8350' AMD systems, until
> the Kernel-10.0 + starts using the video cards for compiling
> *everything* automagically.  Kernel-10.x is suppose to be a
> 'game-changer' for older hardware, speeding up compiling, tremendously.
>
> I put 'thermaltake-watercoolers 3.0' on all my chassis based gentoo
> systems, at about $80/unit. Keeping the cpu cooled, allows for faster
> speeds. My 8350's run at 4GHz and can easily gain 25% clocking to
> 5GHz. I use sensors
> to monitor temperatures:
>
> 'watch -n5 sensors -f'
>
> If I were you, I'd figure out a second, graphical Gentoo system, on
> the cheap; as it can be used to fix most 'borked gentoo' systems,
> particularly if the best tools are setup and ready, just for
> gentoo_repair.
>
>
> hth,
> James
>
>
>


I've got a spare mobo, memory for it and even my old 4 core CPU.  I need
a case and a video card to build a system.  It's on my todo list, sort
of.  I got some hard drives laying around that should work as well. 
They are older small drives, 2 or 3TB drives.  I guess I could use a
stock CPU cooler but I'd likely buy a new one of those too.  May even
take the cooler on my current system and put on the spare and put the
newer one on this one.  I could get a more efficient one and run this 8
core CPU a bit cooler.  Anyway.  Maybe one day.  Oh crap, power supply. 
Must have that too. 

I was going to watch a show while my download finished.  I feel asleep. 
Anyway, I finally logged out and restarted elogind.  Everything is back
to normal so far.  Another thing I noticed, when I went to login on the
console, note console and Konsole, it to was slow to log me in.  Console
= ctrl + Alt + F1, 2 etc.  Konsole = KDEs commandline program.  They
appear the same but sometimes work differently.  Anyway, both are back
to normal.  I haven't tested the screen lock part yet but I have to go
to a neighbors house and will lock the screen when I leave.  I'll know
when I get back later.

So, if anyone runs up on this thread and are experiencing this type of
issues, restart elogind.  Rebooting would work if a windoze fan or going
to a lower runlevel with the GUI not running and then restart it, using
whatever tool manages services. 

Thanks to all. 

Dale

:-)  :-)