[SOLVED] KDE issues (takes 10 minutes to start, oxygen theme)

Hi everyone,
after today's update, KDE is taking about 10 minutes to fully start (instead of 5 seconds - i have an SSD), about 3-4 minutes to get over the splash screen,
then 3-4 minutes black desktop, and then slowly the taskbar, then the icons on systray and so on.
First i thought the changes with the "filesystem" package totally broke KDE, but no, it starts if i wait... the CPU, HDD are on idle, i have no idea what is waiting for
so long, also i have no idea what to check in which logs ... help is appreciated or any idea where i could start checking.
Also the oxygen theme is gone from GTK apps, like firefox, i have the ugly old gtk style ... (like here http://www.gefoo.org/generalfoo/uploads … 4.8.1.png)
Thanks.
Last edited by LyCC (2013-06-04 16:40:32)

Hi pbera and thanks,
i did the
pacman -Rn oxygen-gtk2 oxygen-gtk3
pacman -S oxygen-gtk2 oxygen-gtk3
restarted firefox, nothing ... after reboot however it's ok now, all gtk apps have the oxygen style (probably something wasn't updated with the oxygen package update ... who knows).
About KDE i suspected it's the Network manager to blame since i noticed later that it was completely missing, so i removed and installed again, rebooted but still the same 10 minutes untill kde loads ...
then i remembered that i renamed the /sbin to /sbin.old and the /usr/sbin to /usr/sbin.old because there ware some files in it before the update, despite
$ pacman -Qqo /bin /sbin /usr/sbin | pacman -Qm -
telling me that no one uses those folders, the following files ware left in them:
ls /sbin.old/
ls -l /sbin.old/
total 92
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 18880 Oct 12 2012 halt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 40624 Oct 12 2012 init
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 12 2012 poweroff -> halt
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 12 2012 reboot -> halt
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6280 Oct 12 2012 runlevel
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 23304 Oct 12 2012 shutdown
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Oct 12 2012 telinit -> init
and
ls /usr/sbin.old/
ck-log-system-restart ck-log-system-stop dl10k1 ld10k1d rc.d
ck-log-system-start console-kit-daemon ld10k1 NetworkManager
now, i took these files (of which a bunch are junk for sure) and copied back into the new /usr/bin, rebooted, and bingo ...
I marked the topic as solved, but i have no idea which of these files caused the issue. The only single one that was of these present in the new usr/bin was the NetworkManager, which i reinstalled as I mentioned already ... so, i have no clue why, but it's working fine now ...
[strike]edit: i wanted to ask, which package contains the poweroff, reboot, etc. commands? since those ware left in the old sbin and pacman didn't know of any package containing them.[/strike]
Last edited by LyCC (2013-06-04 18:13:02)

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