[SOLVED] Nov 19th Update causes KDE to hang

Mobile1 · 11-20-2018, 02:32 PM

After the latest -current update (Nov 19th) KDE runs extremely slow, hangs, locks up and after waiting it runs, but always with huge lag and slowness. I have no idea what to look for, so I wondered if anyone else was having similar issues.

Thanks for any input and or direction.

Paulo2 · 11-20-2018, 06:56 PM

Take a look https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...4/#post5927666
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...er-4175642716/
Hope this helps.

Mobile1 · 11-21-2018, 01:36 AM

Hi Paulo2,

Yes I did read those two threads, and they refer to SpiderMonkey....I have no idea what that is. It's not part of Slackware as far as I can tell, it is not installed on my -current machine.

Thanks for your input regardless.

Alien Bob · 11-21-2018, 02:16 AM

In reference to the colloquial name 'spidermonkey', did you install the package that got added to slackware-current?

Code:

Mon Nov 19 02:46:11 UTC 2018
l/js185-1.0.0-x86_64-2.txz: Removed.
...
l/mozjs52-52.9.0esr-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
       Required by the new version of polkit.
l/polkit-0.115-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.

Mobile1 · 11-21-2018, 08:31 AM

Yes, I double checked to make sure before I responded to your query. I'm not getting any error messages, just really bad performance....really slow, and it takes upto 30+ seconds just to open anything, and the Menu does not load at all....it does nothing on click.

Again, this is in KDE, I have not tried anything else.

Paulo2 · 11-21-2018, 09:22 AM

I can't reproduce KDE slowness here, actually I'm Xfce user and just tested a little bit KDE,
and it is running better than Xfce here

The machine is and old Compaq-Presario notebook (2009).

There is a radical procedure that I did when some KDE apps didn't run well some months ago (kget and k3b):
move your '~/.kde' somewhere else and then start KDE to see if it helps.

ps- on the contrary, in Xfce Firefox sometimes gets stuck with high CPU usage and doesn't load any page,
and whisker menu icons start to flicker, but this is happening since October.
I'm waiting to see if that gets solved by some update in Firefox, i915 video driver or other.
Seamonkey doesn't show this problem.

Mobile1 · 11-21-2018, 01:24 PM

Hmmm....interesting. The test box I'm using is alittle old (2010), has an AMD Athlon II x2 245 Processor - Speed 2900MHz, I have 8GB RAM in it, ASUS MB, with AMD780V/SB700 Chipset, 500GB WD Hard Drive.

Normally runs KDE like a champ, but it doesn't now.

chrisretusn · 11-21-2018, 07:23 PM

Are you using KDE 4.14.3 or Alien Bob's KDE 5_18.10?

I use Alien Bob's ktown as my desktop, no slowdown observed. Here's my System Info for this machine:

Operating System: Slackware64-current
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.1
Qt Version: 5.11.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51.0
Kernel Version: 4.19.2
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 840 Processor
Memory: 7.8 GiB of RAM

I also use it on my laptop.
Operating System: Slackware64-current
KDE Plasma Version: 5.14.1
Qt Version: 5.11.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.51.0
Kernel Version: 4.19.2
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i3-7130U CPU @ 2.70GHz
Memory: 3.7 GiB of RAM

Mobile1 · 11-22-2018, 01:43 AM

Hi,

I'm using the stock KDE that comes with -current not Plasma 5 / KDE 5.

I have only added 5 Apps to -current

1.) Chromium-70.0.3538.102
2.) Slpkg-3.3.8
3.) src2pkg-3.0
4.) src2pkg-helpers-1.6
5.) openjdk-8u171_b11

Having said all that, after installing Update - Thu Nov 22 05:56:56 UTC 2018 - all seems to be working as it should. I'll run it through paces tomorrow.