Hi,

my plasma-desktop keeps running nameless jobs that are finished within a few seconds, then opens a popup for every of this jobs saying "[Finished] file". This repeats until I kill the plasma-desktop process. When I re-run plasma-desktop, it starts another nameless job that is never finished (see screenshot). While the many, many jobs are being run and finished almost instantly, the desktop becomes less and less responsive, to the point where I had to log in remotely and kill plasma-desktop via ssh.

I'll see to getting another screenshot of the "Finished" notification.

Thanks,
Felix

btw: apart from that, I absolutely love KDE 4.6! Maaaassive step up!

if you run ksysguard and sort on pid do you see a name for these "nameless jobs" popping up?

there's no image being displayed

ps - 4.6.1 is available in the openSuse

Yes, it seems to be kio_file.

I fixed the screenshots.

I'll now upgrade to KDE 4.6.1, see if that helps.

My guess is that it's caused by some application, possible the package manager that I see running in the system tray. Try to close it and see if you still get the notifications.

If it's not the package manager look at ksysguard and what process is using cpu

Hans - so you think maybe the package manager is putting out a message for each package it updates (assuming it's doing automatic updating in the background)? Is that a kpackagekit icon?

Yes, that's a kpackagekit icon - it's not updating though. I've killed the kpackagekitsmarticon process, it seems to have stopped now. Going to log out and log in again, and if the loop starts again, I'm going to kill kpackagekitsmarticon and see if it stops then.

Edit: Didn't have to log out, it all started again as I clicked the kicker (or what's it called in KDE4?). It's not kpackagekit, ps aux | grep -i pack gives no running processes.

It's called the panel. So if you click on it you'll get a notification? Any way to reproduce it?

google01103: I thought that maybe the package manager was doing something with files which triggered all these notifications.

It doesn't seem reproducible, but I noticed plasma-desktop throws error messages when I start it in a terminal:

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plasma-desktop(12923)/plasma Mpris::artwork: "The process for the file protocol died unexpectedly."
plasma-desktop(12923): couldn't create slave: "Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'amarok-sqltrackuid'.
"
plasma-desktop(12923)/plasma Mpris::artwork: "Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
klauncher said: Unknown protocol 'amarok-sqltrackuid'.
."
QFile::remove: Empty or null file name


I reckon it could be caused by the Amarok plasmoid, but why would it do that? I started Amarok + the plasmoid again to see if it happens when those two are running. So far, nothing happened.

Weird, but it seems to have stopped for no apparent reason. I logged out, back in and it didn't start doing this again. This especially confuses me, as I tried logging out and back in before, but it didn't help. The problems started yesterday, and there have been two reboots since. Even after those, it continued. Now it seems to have stopped. I also noticed kpackagekitd is not running anymore. I'm going to restart kpackagekitd now to see if the problems continue.

Edit: hm, everything seems to be back to normal. I'll wait with marking this "solved" though, at least until tomorrow in case it starts again.

if kpackagekit was set to install updates automatically and to "show confirmation dialog when installing or updating pacakges" and that created a popup for each package (don't know, don't use), then if it was performing a massive update to something like KDE then maybe that would explain the "finished" popups?

Sadly, no. kpackagekit is configured to just notify me, not download and/or install updates automatically. I would've had difficulties installing software with zypper while the popup-stuff was going on, and I didn't have any.
If the popups don't appear again until midnight (CET), I'll mark the topic as solved. But I'm still puzzled at why it was behaving this strange.

The veromix plasma widget caused this problem for me in the past. If you have the problem again, I might suggest turning off all the plasma widgets in your system tray and then enabling them again one-by-one. Alternatively, remove the system tray widget and add it again.

I had the same problem. It was caused by Amarok. Try to switch off OSD, turn on system notifications and switch off lyrics script.

Same problem here. It eventually crashes the plasma desktop for me.

Kubuntu 10.04
KDE 4.5.3
Amarok 2.4.0

I found a big that indicates the problem is actually the "Now Playing" widget.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209004

Hopefully this will get fixed soon. It managed to break my Now Playing widget so badly that I need to figure out how to manually remove it. Apparently doing such is not very well documented...

UPDATE: AHA! I found it! in .kde/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc there are entries for the "nowplaying" applet. Remove the config blocks containing those entries*, save the file, and log out/in. The applet will be gone.

* I had more than one due to trying to figure out how to get rid of it.