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Llama

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How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

Hi,

I've somehow got a KDEmod 3 application (ksnapshot) spawning uncontrollably. After a reboot it just keeps on spawning faster then I can do anything. What am I to do?

b9anders

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Registered: 2007-11-07

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

uninstall?

Llama

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

Sounds like an idea ... Should be also some config in KDE responsible for running apps management...

Jarsto

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

This may seem a weird question, but have you checked your keyboard? I find I can easily replicate what you describe in KDE4 if I hold down KSnapShot's trigger key (Print Screen) down for long enough. Even if the key doesn't look down there might be something weird going on there.

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Jarsto

toxygen

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Registered: 2008-08-22

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

uninstall?

terrible, this solution..

what causes it? like the former post said, do you have a key stuck? are you running a script?  try "killall ksnapshot" from terminal/run command?

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Llama

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

This may seem a weird question, but have you checked your keyboard? I find I can easily replicate what you describe in KDE4 if I hold down KSnapShot's trigger key (Print Screen) down for long enough. Even if the key doesn't look down there might be something weird going on there.

Exactly my case! I find it extremely unlikely, to say the least, that we two have keyboards with sticky PrintScreen's. How did you manage to put the stop to the party, BTW? I really had to uninstall ksnapshot...

Last edited by Llama (2009-02-17 09:11:27)

Mogger

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

You could try to remove the shortcut to launch KSnapshot and see if that helps. (This is not a workaround, but rather a way to narrow down the possible causes of the problem).

I'm not at home at the moment so I can't check which file it is, but I guess it's in ~/.kde/share/config.

Knot

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Registered: 2009-05-18

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

I'm not on Archlinux, I'm on Kubuntu 9.04, but I had the same problem

my solution was to use pkill from terminal (Alt + F2, then type in konsole, tough to use the menu when ksnapshot is spawning )

from terminal

pkill ksnapshot

not sure whether this will work for you, but it did the trick for me.

Knot

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

@Llama and Jarsto --- I'm reporting the same trigger, held the PrintScreen Key down for too long.

symptoms same as well: Ksnapshot kept spawning even after the key wasn't depressed anymore. Well I was, for a while anyway

Last edited by Knot (2009-05-18 18:22:56)

sveri80

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Registered: 2008-11-12

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

Wow, funnily my mother was calling some nights ago in horrible terror that ksnapshot is spawning endlessly.
Of course i was thinking she did something to cause that behaviour, but if i read the messages here
i may have to excuse my mother.
She is runninung Kubuntu 9.04 so this seems to be a wider problem.
Is a bug report known?

However, i told here to press Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to restart the X-server and relog into
Kde. That helped and it didnt appear again up to now.

Knot

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Registered: 2009-05-18

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

Yeah, it seems to be a common bug, at least with Jaunty - I'm posting links to bug reports

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubun … 67897.html

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubun … 72629.html

Interestingly enough, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace had no effect on my system when Ksnapshot was spawning, so I had to use pkill

However, the problem resurfaced at the next boot: so I had to uninstall Ksnapshot

I'll try reinstalling and post an update on that later

Knot

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

Oh and btw, uninstalling ksnapshot also removes kubuntu-desktop so make sure to reinstall that before shutting down

fuscia

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

you could use scrot instead. no need to uninstall ksnapshot.

Dead Code

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Re: How to kill a KDE app spawning uncontrollably?

funnily i'd the same problem today. ksnapshot was spawning uncontrollably.. on killing ksnapshot i get a msg from kdaemon saying klauncher couldnt launch /usr/share/applications/kde4/ksnapshot.desktop

i dont understand the purpose of /usr/share/applications/ directory.. it contains a lot of *.desktop files, can somehow please care to explain.

for now i have renamed /usr/share/applications/kde4/ksnapshot.desktop, it has stopped the spawning