Hello,

I have a separate machine which exports several shares over NFS, which in turn are
mounted on demand by autofs on client machines. When that machine goes down, plasma
workspace is completely unresponsive until the machine is online and shares usable again.
When shutting down/rebooting while some share is still mounted and the machine is not
reachable when KDE starts, it will hang at the splash screen until the mounts are available
again or I manually kill the spawned "mount" processes. (Dolphin shows same behavior, btw).

Is there any way to make the whole of KDE ignore mounts which are provided by autofs/automounter,
or least have the rest of KDE/plasma/dolphin not freeze until the mounts are available again?

EDIT: Similar freeze with the networkmanager applet: when it starts and finds out that the
UMTS modem requires a PIN to be entered, I get the dialogbox to enter the PIN,
which is frozen for 1-2 minutes and freezes plasma along with it.

Thanks!

KDE uses a subsystem called "Solid" which has a number of backends, including those for FStab, UDisks, etc. It is probably Solid trying to check on the free disk space or type of the mounts which causes this freezing. I will note that this freezing is expected behaviour however.

The Network Management UMTS pin freeze is not expected behaviour however. I do recall a number of issues involving freezing with the Network Management stack being fixed however, so you may need a newer version.

bcooksley wrote:KDE uses a subsystem called "Solid" which has a number of backends, including those for FStab, UDisks, etc. It is probably Solid trying to check on the free disk space or type of the mounts which causes this freezing. I will note that this freezing is expected behaviour however.

That's unfortunate -- I really don't care if solid can display the free space of mounts
as long as I can get a working desktop while it does the checking on mounts which may NEVER succeed.

The Network Management UMTS pin freeze is not expected behaviour however. I do recall a number of issues involving freezing with the Network Management stack being fixed however, so you may need a newer version.

I'm on the latest versions Gentoo has to offer. I'll try a git/svn version next.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, when Solid attempts to interact with a 'frozen' mount the kernel freezes the entire process until the mount responds - which is why Plasma and other KDE applications freeze.