[vox-tech] KDE? Or something more insidious....?

[Rod Roark]

Check if you're running out of memory (free), disk space=20
(df) or if something is hogging the CPU (top).

If that all looks OK, try shutting down KDE and renaming=20
~/.kde to something else, which will make it treat you as a
brand-new user.

-- Rod
   http://www.sunsetsystems.com/

On Sunday 08 December 2002 08:28 am, Richard S. Crawford wrote:
> I came back from a week-long business trip in Santa Barbara to find tha=
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> my RH7.2 box is acting kinda weird.  Normally, I leave it up and runnin=
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> when I'm gone, since I feel comfortable with my firewall setup* and so =
I
> can log in and move some files around in case I decide to work on a
> story while on the road.  When I came back, I logged into my computer t=
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> find the following...
>
> 1.  KDE is broken.  Or something.  In the taskbar, the icons for runnin=
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> programs no longer display the name of the program, if that makes sense=
=2E
>
> 2.  More seriously, I can't access anything from the KDE menu.  When I
> try clicking on the menu icon, KDE slows down glacially for several
> minutes before I can start using anything again.  And the menu never
> shows up.  The same thing happens if I try right-clicking on the deskto=
p.
>
> 3.  Sometimes, KDE just freezes.  Kaput.  I'm used to this sort of thin=
g
> from Windows, but my Linux box has been nice and stable ever since I
> replaced my hard drive.  But this morning I stepped away from my
> computer to get some breakfast, and came back to find that my
> screensaver was paused, and nothing I could do -- whether moving the
> mouse or clicking the mouse or typing on the keyboard -- could get
> things going again.
>
> I'd love to upgrade to KDE 3.01 but haven't a clue how to go about doin=
g
> that (I admit, I still consider myself a newbie); GNOME 2.0 is
> unreliable on my computer; and I'm not sure how to reinstall from my
> source disks without zarking LILO.
>
> I can fix most of the problems on my computer without any serious issue=
s
> (getting MySQL to play with PHP and Apache on my box was a challenge,
> but fun!) but X and window managers, while I like using them, have me
> flummoxed.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Richard
>
>
> * For what it's worth, I've poked around on my system as much as I can
> and I can't find any evidence that my system was hacked into while I wa=
s
> gone; and that was the explanation I'd come up with for why my system
> started acting so weird while I was gone.  That, and hard drive issues.
>   Which is not a possibility I'm willing to entertain just yet if I can
> at all avoid it.