On 25/4/21 11:34 pm, Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding
> pods of
>> Dolphins.......
[snip]
...
...
[snip]
>
> To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file.
>
> What does your .config/dolphinrc file look like?
>
> At the level of KDE in general I have no idea what config file/files it
> looks at when configuring the complete desktop environment but that would
> be the next thing I'd go looking for.
>
> I'm assuming (bad idea) that you've done a very simple experiment like
> closing all the dolphin windows and immediately logging out of KDE?
>
> - Mark
>
Mark,
Thanks for the suggestion. It wasn't actually dolphinrc but the
~/.config/session dir that contained the problem. It appears that just
during my normal day to day usage of the machine, I would open Dolphin,
use it, then close it, rinse, repeat. The GUI would close down but some
part of Dolphin would remain running. This resulted in, the time I
finally spotted this, 28 instances of this "zombie" running.
When the machine was shutdown at the end of the day, these 20 odd
zombies would write a file into "session" for start up next time - which
they in turn did the next time the machine started up, but this time as
the full GUI + zombie.
Cleaning out session and killing all of the zombies fixed the problem.
Regards,
Andrew
> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 7:12 AM Andrew Lowe <agl@wht.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>> A reworking of the subject line from my earlier post regarding
> pods of
>> Dolphins.......
[snip]
...
...
[snip]
>
> To me it's suggestive of something messed up in a config file.
>
> What does your .config/dolphinrc file look like?
>
> At the level of KDE in general I have no idea what config file/files it
> looks at when configuring the complete desktop environment but that would
> be the next thing I'd go looking for.
>
> I'm assuming (bad idea) that you've done a very simple experiment like
> closing all the dolphin windows and immediately logging out of KDE?
>
> - Mark
>
Mark,
Thanks for the suggestion. It wasn't actually dolphinrc but the
~/.config/session dir that contained the problem. It appears that just
during my normal day to day usage of the machine, I would open Dolphin,
use it, then close it, rinse, repeat. The GUI would close down but some
part of Dolphin would remain running. This resulted in, the time I
finally spotted this, 28 instances of this "zombie" running.
When the machine was shutdown at the end of the day, these 20 odd
zombies would write a file into "session" for start up next time - which
they in turn did the next time the machine started up, but this time as
the full GUI + zombie.
Cleaning out session and killing all of the zombies fixed the problem.
Regards,
Andrew