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joseribeiro

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 73

kactivitymanagerd is not running

Hello!

Kactivitymanagerd is not running on my system.

$ ps ax | grep kactivitymanagerd
3195 pts/1    S+     0:00 grep kactivitymanagerd

Info from logs:

$ journalctl|grep kactivitymanager
...
...
...
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: org.kde.kactivities.activities: Starting the KDE Activity Manager daemon QDateTime("2015-07-05 17:56:50.413 WEST Qt::LocalTime")
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: kf5.kservice.sycoca: Trying to open ksycoca from "/home/username/.cache/ksycoca5"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: org.kde.kactivities.application: [   OK   ] loaded:   "Share-Like-Connect"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: Setting the name:  "org.kde.ActivityManager.ActivityTemplates"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: org.kde.kactivities.application: [   OK   ] loaded:   "Modelos de Actividades"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: org.kde.kactivities.application: [   OK   ] loaded:   "Monitor de Eventos"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: Setting the name:  "org.kde.ActivityManager.Resources.Scoring"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: Creating directory:  "/home/username/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/"
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: KActivities: Database connection:  "kactivities_db_resources_140327845120000_readwrite" 
Jul 05 17:56:50 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: org.kde.kactivities.application: [   OK   ] loaded:   "Fontes do SQLite"
Jul 05 17:57:17 hostname kactivitymanagerd[538]: QWidget: Cannot create a QWidget without QApplication

I think I am having troubles with power management because of that.

When I click on System settings => Power Management => Activity Settings I see everything greyed out and I get this message:

"Power Management configuration module could not be loaded. The activity service is not running. It is necessary to have the activity manager to configure activity-specific power management behavior."

I'm using kde 5.

Last edited by joseribeiro (2015-07-08 21:51:58)

joseribeiro

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 73

Re: kactivitymanagerd is not running

I removed ~/.kde, ~/.kde4, and ~/.cache but it did not work.

Then, I tried something a litle bit more agressive:

I created another user.
I rebooted the system.
I Logged in with new user.
And I was astonished...

It worked. 

The problem was in another configuration file.
Which file? I really don't know.

Last edited by joseribeiro (2015-07-07 22:12:38)

Loose_Control

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-01-11

Posts: 136

Re: kactivitymanagerd is not running

maybe /var/tmp/kdecache-USER

arojas

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From: Spain

Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 2,313

Re: kactivitymanagerd is not running

.kde and .kde4 are the configuration dirs for kde 3 and kde 4 respectively, so of course deleting them wouldn't have any effect on this

joseribeiro

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 73

Re: kactivitymanagerd is not running

The problem returned.

So I removed the directory ~/.config. It solved the problem but is only temporary because if I reboot the system the problem arises again.

Last edited by joseribeiro (2015-07-08 22:12:12)

joseribeiro

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Registered: 2013-02-17

Posts: 73

Re: kactivitymanagerd is not running

I found out If I replace compiz for kwin I am able to use power management, e.g, lock screen feature. Maybe kde5 broke friendship with compiz because in kde4 they coexisted nicely.