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

[Ralf Mardorf]

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" -
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