Re: KDE became a sort of sloth

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On Wed, 2014-09-03 at 15:51 +0200, Walter Cazzola wrote:
> Dear Fedora Experts,
> I've a Dell Precision m6500 with i7 and 1GB NVIDIA FX3800M and it is
> running a Fedora 20 since it was distributed without any trouble.
> 
> Two days ago I have updated my system through yum and since then KDE is
> really slow to start (Today it tooks 8 minutes to be usable again) and
> sometimes becomes unresponsive for a while.
> 
> The period of freezing coincide with some HD activities (or at least
> with the HD indicator light turned on without blinking (or blinking so
> fast that I can't discern it). I've tried to see with top if I have some
> suspect process running but everything is as usual.
> 
> Also the KDE session the system restores is pretty naïve with a couple
> of konsoles, an instance of firefox and a couple of okulars open.
> Nothing that, in my view, can justify the change.
> 
> I've tried to undo the last update but yum fails in that due to a
> dependency issue. Both Baloo and Akonadi indexing service are turned
> off. Also googling around didn't suggest me new ideas about how to fix
> the problem
> 
> My next try it would be to use the nvidia drivers instead of nouveau but
> before selling my soul to the evil ;-) I'd prefer to ask for help.

Was the kernel updated?  Have you tried to boot with an older kernel
that worked before to see if there is an issue there?


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Mike Chambers
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