Re: Some KDE programs load extremely slowly after partial upgrade

[John O'Hagan <johnohagan@iprimus.com.au>]

Martin Steigerwald wrote:

>> Hi all,
>> I'm using sarge and KDE 3.3.2 (custom 2.6.12 kernel from debian
>> all the Xorg and gcc-4 stuff, but also udev, alsa-modules, and anything
>> else that took my fancy at the time!
>
>[...]
>
>> Does anyone have an idea what could be causing this?
>
>Hello John,

[...]
>Delays without CPU usage  in KDE can be caused by non functional DCOP 
>communication or ICE communication or non functional KLauncher / kdeinit 
>stuff. Its a bit difficult to track down, and I often started with 
>deleting session files related to that kind of communication.
>
>You could try whether logging out, doing  rm ~/.DCOPserver* and logging in 
>again helps.

Thank you, Martin, that is exactly what it was! Any idea why this kind of 
thing would happen or how to prevent it?

Thanks again,

John