On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 19:40 +0530, Shridhar Daithankar wrote: > Hello, > > I recently formatted an acer netbook with intel atom processor, 32 bit, > 1.66GHz/1GB RAM, with arch. I installed kde on it, everything went as > expected. > > However when I log in with a normal user, the KDE start-up completes but the > splash screen is stuck. plasma-desktop process is eating 100% CPU. Killing and > restarting the process does not help. > > I think the machine is dual core, /proc/cpuinfo shows two cores but might be > hyper-threaded, am not sure. > > I can hit Alt-F2, get a krunner prompt and run applications like konsole but > the desktop remain unavailable. > > I had just started dbus from rc.conf and created a user as follows > > # useradd -m -g users -G audio,video shridhar > > And log-in from kdm. > > Google is not much of help. Any suggestions before I report the bug upstream? "pacman -Rdd phonon-gstreamer pacman -S phonon-vlc" - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=133359 https://www.google.de/search?q=plasma%20desktop%20100%25% 20cpu&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&source=hp&channel=np
