kde-apps/konsole root login needs > 20 sec.

Randy Andy

Hi Folks,

since I'm giving the latest ~Plasma-meta packages a shot, for about 3 month now, konsole has the same sluggish behavior her on my box.

Every time when I want to get to root under konsole with help of su - , after entering my passphrase, it takes about 23 seconds before I was prompted as root!
Absolutely reproducible here with every new tab under konsole.
An xfce4-terminal e.g. under the same plasma environment reacts immediately instead.

Searching since days for already existing bug-reports or known solutions, but couldn't find one.

I've already retried after deleting the konsolerc and all existing user-profiles, but still the same.

Any Idea what could be the root cause for this lag?

Many thanks, Andy.
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sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Romania

There was a similar bug in kde-frameworks/knotifications, which version do you have installed?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=382444
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b868d154f825023aa7cab38852336e2c30d6d18e

Randy Andy · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2018 11:19 am Post subject:

Thanks sebaro,

for pointing me to this, but it must be a different fault, as you can see from my installation history of knotifications on my box:

sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Romania

Did you start konsole from another terminal? Maybe there are some warnings.

Randy Andy · Posted: Mon Feb 05, 2018 5:02 pm Post subject:

Thx sebaro,
already tried out, but sadly without any messages or hints.

Additionally I tried to replace my .bashrc with a very easy and generic one, but this also makes no difference.
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sebaro · Veteran Joined: 03 Jul 2006 Posts: 1141 Location: Romania

Maybe you'll find something in the logs, try KSystemLog.

Also you can remove/backup konsole config files/directories:
~/.config/konsole*
~/.local/share/konsole

asturm · Developer Joined: 05 Apr 2007 Posts: 8935

If su is your only problem then the issue is almost certainly not konsole itself but somewhere in the permissions of your user session.

tranquilcool · Veteran Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1179

I had similar problem, it turned out elogind was the culprit. updated elogind
and it solved that for me.
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Randy Andy · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2018 6:51 pm Post subject:

Thank you for the hints guys.

@sebareo
I already tried out to delete these files, but it doesn't improve the situation.

@tranquilcool
I'm not using systemd, so I havn't elogind. My system i up to date and today I compiled plasma 5.12, but the delay is still the same.

@asturm
possible, but actually I have no clue where to look for wrong permissions regarding this.
Anyway, I couldn't see any problems in my /var/log/messages regarding su when getting to root, except lots of nouveau faults.

root login entries looks like this instead:

tranquilcool · Veteran Joined: 25 Mar 2005 Posts: 1179

Randy Andy · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2018 4:46 pm Post subject:

Thanks tranquilcool,

you're right as I see now, but I'm not sure if I'm willing to change this only cause the konsole delay, especially if it's not clear if I can solve the Problem with that...
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Randy Andy · Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2018 4:10 pm Post subject:

Hi Folks,

some time ago I migrated my system to elogind in according to: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Elogind
but konsole takes furthermore 20 sec. to login as root, as you can see here from my log: