How to debug two things

[Valorie Zimmerman]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:16 PM, Mitch Golden <mgolden at mitchgolden.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Feb 2016, Achim Bohnet wrote:
>
>> Valorie reminded me ...
>>
>> On Monday 18 Jan 2016 11:42:48 Mitch Golden wrote:
>>>
>>> I have been using KDE5 since the 14.10 dual release, and there are two
>>> bugs that persist that I would like to tackle.
>>>
>>> 1) Most though not all of the time when I log out/shut down and then log
>>> in again, if I had a konsole open in the old session it will not be there
>>> in the new.  I am fairly sure that this is due to a crash in konsole when
>>> it receives the shutdown signal.  I believe this because once or twice I
>>> have seen the crash reporter open just before the system turned off.
>>
>>
>> I've once read a long analysis what goes wrong with konole session
>> management
>> and session management in general.  Worth reading, saves you lots of time
>> I'm
>> sure but could not find it right now. Good luck with google ;-)
>
>
> Wow, I figured out how to reproduce the problem, and I think I know why no
> one else might have seen this.
>
> To start with, I should note that my machine has an nVidia card (a GEForce
> GTX 560M) and I use the nVidia proprietary driver.
>
> I have long noticed that for some reason, Firefox (my preferred browser)
> makes the graphics card spin up all the time.  The slightest touch on the
> scroll bar, for example, sends the GPU clock to the highest rate, which
> causes the GPU to run quite hot and the fan to spin up.
>
> To counter this, I add this to the xorg.conf
>
> Section "Device"
>     Identifier     "Device0"
>     Driver         "nvidia"
>     VendorName     "NVIDIA Corporation"
>     Option         "RegistryDwords" "PowerMizerEnable=0x1;
> PerfLevelSrc=0x2222; PowerMizerDefault=0x3; PowerMizerDefaultAC=0x3"
>     Option         "Coolbits" "9"
>     Option         "UseEdidDpi" "FALSE"
>     Option         "DPI" "96 x 96"
> EndSection
>
> This pegs the clock speed to its lowest level, which is fine except for
> watching videos.
>
> So, when these powermizer settings are in effect WHEN THE MACHINE IS
> STARTING UP (!) and there is a full screen firefox open, konsole fails to
> reopen - even if the settings were not in effect when the machine was shut
> down.  It will often, though not always, fail to reopen even if konsole is
> the only thing on the desktop.
>
> This is new to kde5 - everything was fine in kde4.
>
> So, my question is: anyone know where should I report this bug? Is it a
> konsole problem or a plama problem?
>
>   - Mitch Golden

Mitch if this is still happening, report it -- upstream. It seems
clear from your explanation that this is not a packaging bug, so just
go to bugs.kde.org and report against Konsole. If that is the wrong
component, the devels will move it. This could be a problem in session
management too, and I think but am not sure that is covered by Plasma.
In any case, just put the information you gave us to the KDE devels in
your bug report.

It is best to always report, even if you aren't precisely sure where
it should be. One note: the single-sign-on system for KDE does not yet
cover bko, so if you've never logged in there, you will need to create
a login.

Valorie

PS: There is no KDE5. Plasma 5, please!

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