[arch-general] KDE and plasma-desktop CPU usage

[Shridhar Daithankar]

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?
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Regards
 Shridhar