Hello - my knowledge of underlying KDE/Ubuntu architecture is scant, but occasionally (maybe once a day, or a few times a week) i'll hit one of the khotkeys i've configured to start an application, e.g. a terminal, or I'll Alt-F2 and try to run kate or whatever, and nothing happens (sometimes application mini-icon appears next to mouse cursor, but app doesn't start, no disk activity, etc.)
Mouse moves around, things seem essentially normal. I'll hit the key combo again, try to launch again, etc, and still nothing. Then, maybe 10 to 20 seconds later, it becomes clear that all my keystrokes and app launches were buffered and just hung up on something, and I'll get five terminal screens and three instances of kate all appear at once. Thereafter, things are back to normal (meaning apps launch normally).
Doesn't correlate in any way to the particular application I'm trying to launch. Doesn't seem to happen at the same time in the day. Doesn't seem to be related to high CPU usage. Doesn't seem to be related to any hardware changes or network or disk usage, etc etc etc. I mean, something is happening, clearly, but it's not obvious. I can't bring up a task manager to see what's up because it doesn't appear until the bottleneck resolves. Never saw it until 11.10 I believe (11.04 at the earliest, definitely not before that).
I don't know what subsystem is hung up and thus what log to check out... would this be a "dbus" thing?
Next time I'll see if a ctrl-alt-F1 gets me to a term before or after the logjam period (i assume it will work before).
Thanks for any ideas,
-Casey
(Kubuntu 11.10, Dell Insprion 6000 laptop, radeon video driver)
Mouse moves around, things seem essentially normal. I'll hit the key combo again, try to launch again, etc, and still nothing. Then, maybe 10 to 20 seconds later, it becomes clear that all my keystrokes and app launches were buffered and just hung up on something, and I'll get five terminal screens and three instances of kate all appear at once. Thereafter, things are back to normal (meaning apps launch normally).
Doesn't correlate in any way to the particular application I'm trying to launch. Doesn't seem to happen at the same time in the day. Doesn't seem to be related to high CPU usage. Doesn't seem to be related to any hardware changes or network or disk usage, etc etc etc. I mean, something is happening, clearly, but it's not obvious. I can't bring up a task manager to see what's up because it doesn't appear until the bottleneck resolves. Never saw it until 11.10 I believe (11.04 at the earliest, definitely not before that).
I don't know what subsystem is hung up and thus what log to check out... would this be a "dbus" thing?
Next time I'll see if a ctrl-alt-F1 gets me to a term before or after the logjam period (i assume it will work before).
Thanks for any ideas,
-Casey
(Kubuntu 11.10, Dell Insprion 6000 laptop, radeon video driver)
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