KDE freezes after login sometimes

[rocketman768]

This has happened to me twice this week. Just after logging in and KDE playing its startup music, the whole desktop freezes. No mouse response, no keyboard response (can't ctrl-alt-f2 or anything). This is really really frustrating because the only way to fix it is reboot. Is there a way I can find out what's happening? The whole system also freezes sometimes when I'm using gmail with firefox.

[josefko]

Re: KDE freezes after login sometimes

I am not sure, if it helps, but at least you can try to turn off desktop effects. System Settings - Desktop - Desktop Effects - turn off desktop effects.
It may be the case when turn off desktop effects can help only if you can move the mouse pointer when the desktop is frozen.

[rocketman768]

Re: KDE freezes after login sometimes

No. There is no difference when I disable desktop effects.

This is a desktop, but I have a wireless card set to connect to my network automatically on bootup. I've noticed the freeze happens just about every single time if I take more than a few seconds to enter my KDE Wallet password (needed by the network manager to connect to the network). Again, it's a really nasty freeze with no input seeming to work.

Is there possibly a log somewhere that would record this freeze?

[eddieg780]

Re: KDE freezes after login sometimes

I have noticed that if you don't put in a password in wallet and just hit ok it says your password it weak do you want to continue. I clicked continue and wallet won't even ask for a password now but still holds the passwords. Maybe there is a way to change it so you can run it this way. Just a thought.

[kevinc]

Re: KDE freezes after login sometimes

It could be linked with wpa-supplicant not getting the password from wallet and causing a failure.
Did you try the previous suggestion?

logs are in /var/log
there are a number - try syslog, kern.log, Xorg.0.log and daemon.log
or, use system log viewer

Can you change your router not to use a password and see if that solves the problem?
I suspect it is caused by the time in getting the password.