if K button or klauncher is freezing in KDE read this.

[Stefan Wold]

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 00:57 +0200, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > On 06/07/2011 04:46 PM, Zbigniew Luszpinski wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have build KDE and to my surprise it keeps freezing for a while on
> > > every K button click or icons on menubar. The fix is easy:
> > > lrm ConsoleKit PolicyKit
> > > (I removed both but only removal of one of them may be enough).
> > 
> > please call this a "workaround". It's obviously not a "fix".
> > 
> > Auke
> 
> Yes. This is workaround not fix. BTW I narrowed this down to ConsoleKit 
> only. PolicyKit is not guilty. lrm ConsoleKit is enough to avoid freezing.
> 
> How about adding some kind of protection to kde against ConsoleKit to keep 
> users away from K menu freezing? For example putting ConsoleKit to 
> conflicts file of kde? This bug is nasty because there is no error, no 
> crash nothing. Just freezing for about 1 minute on every K menu access. 
> Very irritating and making KDE unusable.
> 
> have a nice day,
> Zbigniew Luszpinski

Adding ConsoleKit as a conflict is not acceptable. It may render other
parts of the system unusable. How about actually fixing the real issue?
Pretty sure its a consolekit/policykit configuration problem, wouldn't
be the first time. Check how other distros have integrated kde with
consolekit/policykit for example.

-- 
Sincerely
Stefan Wold
Lunar Linux developer - PGP public key 9FF9A9CF 

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