On 11/6/18 7:24 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > F29 updated. > > For the last couple of days I've turned on my monitor in the morning to > find Plasma unresponsive, i.e. clicking on the bottom panel does > nothing, neither does right-clicking on the background. So, you can move the mouse? > > The machine is left on at night (not suspended or hibernating, just the > monitor turned off), and today the clock widget shows a frozen time of > 4:55am. Nothing is running overnight except the DE and my backup > software (rsnapshot) which does run at around that time though it has > been doing that for years without issue and according to the logs > completed on time as usual. > > 'killall -s SIGSEGV plasmashell' (which in the past would kick it into > restarting) is ineffective. Maybe the magic incantation has changed, > but as none of this stuff is documented in man pages I don't know. And where are you typing these commands? Doing a Crtl-Alt-F2? > > 'kill <PID>' does kill it, but how do I run it again without logging > out? Simply running plasmashell from the command line does put up the > widget panel but it's still frozen, and the command never returns. Back in the F26 or F27 days I was having some issues. Forgot the circumstances but back then I was advised that doing kquitapp plasmashell plasmashell & Was the "preferred" method of killing/restarting. My system is up 24/7 as well and most of the times I turn off the monitors. No issues for me. -- Fedora Users - The place to go to beat OT dead horses :-) :-) _______________________________________________ kde mailing list -- kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to kde-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
