[arch-general] Plasma-desktop in KDE 4.7 can not start up [Solved]

[Leon Feng]

2011/8/3 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>

> On Wednesday 03 Aug 2011 22:25:37 Leon Feng wrote:
> > 2011/8/3 Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
> >
> > > Are you getting a crash report from KDE?  Also, have you checked for
> > > relevant
> > > information in the xorg-server log?
> >
> > No everything is ok in xorg-server. After kill plasma-desktop, I can
> login
> > kde. Start krunner ,Firefox and other application can star up. Alt + Tab
> is
> > used to switch them. So X is working normally.
> >
> > And KDE is not crashed. It seems plasma-desktop is runnig into a infinit
> > loop. It takes 100% CPU power with nothing output to console.
>
> You may find strace helpful in figuring out what it's trying to do, or
> maybe
> attach to it with gdb to get a backtrace?
>
> What video driver are you using, by the way?
>

After debuging by gdb, problem is caused by digital clock plasmoid not
handle zh_CN locale very well. Remove it or change Locale to "C" fix the
problem.
Bug reported as https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279434
Thanks for all people helped.

Leon


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> Paul
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