Monday, June 20, 2011

KDE 4.6 - kmix eating up CPU

It happened to me few times, the CPU load was high because kmix was pretty hungry. It also stopped responding. The problem was in the corrupted profile file.
For the solution follow these steps:

killall -9 kmix
rm -rf $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/apps/kmix/
rm -f $(kde4-config --localprefix)/share/config/kmix*
kmix &

These steps will kill kmix, remove it's configuration and start it again, this time with new, valid configuration.

1 comment:

  1. Hi Michal,

    thanks a lot. Was fighting with this phenomenon since some times. Probably took a wrong configuration with me during several dist upgrades.

    Jochen

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