F36 extreme laggy (open start menu, switch programs), keyboard problems

rowspan · September 5, 2022, 8:45pm

Hello,

on my laptop (Thinkpad T520, Core i5, 8GB) Fedora/KDE is running very stable, responsive and reliable since several years.

Since updating to F36 a few days ago, it is no longer fun to work with it.

The following slight errors occur:

Hardware volume keys and microphone key don’t work anymore
Windows button on the keyboard does not open the start menu
typing the name of a program in the start menu does not show it, although it is included in the menu

The following serious errors always occur 1x when the laptop was supend-to-disk or just locked:

opening the start menu after clicking the F-button takes min 30Sek
displaying the window of any program on the taskbar takes min 30Sek
there is also a long waiting time (12sec) during which no program opens when a Bluetooth output device is connected or disconnected.

In the waiting time in which nothing happens, the laptop is not busy, because

if Firefox was already open, new tabs are opened, web pages are displayed fast and video streaming is no problem.

I would be interested if others also have such problems and how I can get rid of them.

Thanks and many greetings

grumpey · September 5, 2022, 9:17pm

Hi @rowspan welcome to :Fedora when you have a minute please take a look at: Welcome to Ask Fedora! Please read me first!

Can you please provide some additional information:
inxi -Fzx in terminal and post the output as </> Preformatted text here.

And the output of the journal while the issues are occuring.

Thanks

rowspan · September 7, 2022, 7:27am

Thank you for your answer,

output of inxi

System:
  Kernel: 5.18.19-200.fc36.x86_64 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
    v: 2.37-27.fc36 Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.25.4
    Distro: Fedora release 36 (Thirty Six)
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 42433WG v: ThinkPad T520
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: 42433WG serial: <superuser required>
    UEFI-[Legacy]: LENOVO v: 8AET54WW (1.34 ) date: 11/02/2011
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT0 charge: 51.8 Wh (97.0%) condition: 53.4/56.2 Wh (95.0%)
    volts: 11.8 min: 10.8 model: LGC 42T4911 status: discharging
CPU:
  Info: dual core model: Intel Core i5-2520M bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Sandy Bridge rev: 7 cache: L1: 128 KiB L2: 512 KiB L3: 3 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 1278 high: 1608 min/max: 800/3200 cores: 1: 852 2: 1100
    3: 1608 4: 1555 bogomips: 19934
  Flags: avx ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
Graphics:
  Device-1: Intel 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics
    vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T520 driver: i915 v: kernel arch: Gen6
    bus-ID: 00:02.0
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 1.20.14 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3 driver: X:
    loaded: modesetting gpu: i915 resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 3000 (SNB GT2)
    v: 3.3 Mesa 22.1.7 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: Intel 6 Series/C200 Series Family High Definition Audio
    vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T520 driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel
    bus-ID: 00:1b.0
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.18.19-200.fc36.x86_64 running: yes
  Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network vendor: Lenovo ThinkPad T520
    driver: e1000e v: kernel port: 5080 bus-ID: 00:19.0
  IF: enp0s25 state: down mac: <filter>
  Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
    v: kernel bus-ID: 03:00.0
  IF: wlp3s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IF-ID-1: wwp0s29u1u4i6 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Broadcom BCM2045B (BDC-2.1) type: USB driver: btusb v: 0.8
    bus-ID: 1-1.4:5
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 31 state: up address: see --recommends
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 192.46 GiB (80.7%)
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: MZ7TE256HMHP-000L7 size: 238.47 GiB
    temp: 26 C
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 225.03 GiB used: 192.21 GiB (85.4%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/dm-0
    mapped: luks-861b421f-5672-4d7f-b043-a2bcb33e8656
  ID-2: /boot size: 973.4 MiB used: 256.1 MiB (26.3%) fs: ext4
    dev: /dev/sda1
Swap:
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 7.77 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
    dev: /dev/sda3
  ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 7.64 GiB used: 2.98 GiB (39.0%)
    dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 47.0 C mobo: N/A
  Fan Speeds (RPM): cpu: 0 mobo: 65535 fan-2:
Info:
  Processes: 311 Uptime: 10d 10h 21m Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 5.77 GiB (75.5%)
  Init: systemd target: graphical (5) Compilers: gcc: 12.2.1 clang: 14.0.5
  Packages: 7 note: see --pkg Shell: Zsh v: 5.8.1 inxi: 3.3.19

This is the output of the journal when opening the start menu (which happened fast) and when clicking on shutdown, which took about 24 seconds.

Sep 07 08:26:56 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: Started dbus-:1.2-org.kde.LogoutPrompt@0.service.
Sep 07 08:27:02 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[1857]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 12591, resource id: 153092112, major code: 15 (QueryTree), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:27:02 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[1857]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 12629, resource id: 153092133, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:27:02 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: dbus-:1.2-org.kde.LogoutPrompt@0.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Sep 07 08:27:02 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: dbus-:1.2-org.kde.LogoutPrompt@0.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Surprising discovery after logout and login again, opening the Start menu via windows button and the search for installed programs works again.

Bluetooth and Firefox

After further deeper investigation, I was able to determine a connection of Bluetooth and media playback (in FF).
Here is the journal when the Bluetooth speaker is connected, a movie is started on Netflix (FF 104.0.1), the laptop lid is closed (Sleep) and then opened again. In this state, switching between programs suddenly takes dozens of seconds. As does opening the Start menu or interacting with the widget in the system tray. Likewise, the Start menu does not open when the Windows key is pressed and the Start menu search no longer finds an installed program.

Sep 07 08:42:28 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 54148, resource id: 31457587, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:42:28 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 54149, resource id: 31457587, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:42:28 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 54150, resource id: 31457587, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:42:28 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 54151, resource id: 31457587, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:42:28 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 9 (BadDrawable), sequence: 54152, resource id: 31457587, major code: 14 (GetGeometry), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: libva info: VA-API version 1.14.0
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/iHD_drv_video.so
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: libva info: va_openDriver() returns -1
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: libva info: Trying to open /usr/lib64/dri/i965_drv_video.so
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: libva info: Found init function __vaDriverInit_1_14
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: failed to open /usr/lib64/dri/hybrid_drv_video.so
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: Not using hybrid_drv_video.so
Sep 07 08:43:43 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136121]: libva info: va_openDriver() returns 0
Sep 07 08:44:07 d3v.localdomain wireplumber[1827]: error reading timerfd: Resource temporarily unavailable
Sep 07 08:44:47 d3v.localdomain kded5[134828]: org.kde.plasma.nm.kded: Unhandled active connection state change:  3
Sep 07 08:44:48 d3v.localdomain kscreenlocker_greet[137862]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Sep 07 08:44:48 d3v.localdomain kscreenlocker_greet[137862]: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserList.qml:43:9: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
Sep 07 08:44:48 d3v.localdomain kscreenlocker_greet[137862]: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserList.qml:43:9: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
Sep 07 08:44:49 d3v.localdomain wireplumber[1827]: 0x5580903aae98: error 24
Sep 07 08:45:15 d3v.localdomain wireplumber[1827]: Failed to release transport /org/bluez/hci0/dev_2C_41_A1_64_2F_9A/sep3/fd12: Method "Release" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.MediaTransport1" doesn't exist
Sep 07 08:45:15 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: Stopped target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth.
Sep 07 08:45:15 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: Reached target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth.
Sep 07 08:45:16 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/extras/PlaceholderMessage.qml:238:5: QML Heading: Binding loop detected for property "verticalAlignment"
Sep 07 08:45:16 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.2C_41_A1_64_2F_9A.a2dp-sink"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain kded5[134828]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[136099]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain akonadi_ical_resource[135253]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain DiscoverNotifier[135063]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain akonadi_followupreminder_agent[135252]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain akonadi_sendlater_agent[135262]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain akonadi_maildispatcher_agent[135256]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain akonadi_mailmerge_agent[135258]: "Object does not exist at path “/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/ActiveConnection/29”"
Sep 07 08:45:18 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 12888, resource id: 127926320, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Sep 07 08:45:41 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.bluetooth/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml:33:32: QML Action: Accessible must be attached to an Item
Sep 07 08:45:41 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.bluetooth/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml:33:32: QML Action: Accessible must be attached to an Item
Sep 07 08:45:41 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.bluetooth/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml:33:32: QML Action: Accessible must be attached to an Item
Sep 07 08:45:41 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.2C_41_A1_64_2F_9A.a2dp-sink"
Sep 07 08:46:23 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[134872]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.2C_41_A1_64_2F_9A.a2dp-sink"
Sep 07 08:46:48 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[134829]: kwin_core: XCB error: 152 (BadDamage), sequence: 22809, resource id: 20979335, major code: 143 (DAMAGE), minor code: 3 (Subtract)

Cross-check with VLC

As a cross-check without FF (closed), media playback was performed once via Bluetooth over VLC. Again, the lid was closed (sleep). After reawakening, all functions in the Start menu were still intact and switching between programs was fast. But after maybe 1-2min, all errors still occurred just as they did when using FF. Only later.

Sep 07 09:04:23 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: Started app-vlc-9d6f99f395bb4ed6970761c95cab100c.scope - VLC media player - Media player.
Sep 07 09:04:23 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[140515]: [000055f847716ef0] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface.
Sep 07 09:04:24 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[140515]: [000055f8477ba1e0] main playlist: playlist is empty
Sep 07 09:04:24 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: QFont::setPointSizeF: Point size <= 0 (0.000000), must be greater than 0
Sep 07 09:04:30 d3v.localdomain vlc[140515]: uint DBusMenuExporterDBus::GetLayout(int, int, const QStringList&, DBusMenuLayoutItem&): Condition failed: menu
Sep 07 09:04:31 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[140515]: [00007f50ecc73ba0] prefetch stream error: unimplemented query (264) in control
Sep 07 09:04:51 d3v.localdomain kded5[139347]: org.kde.plasma.nm.kded: Unhandled active connection state change:  3
Sep 07 09:04:52 d3v.localdomain kscreenlocker_greet[140568]: Qt: Session management error: networkIdsList argument is NULL
Sep 07 09:04:52 d3v.localdomain kscreenlocker_greet[140568]: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserList.qml:43:9: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
Sep 07 09:04:52 d3v.localdomain kscreenlocker_greet[140568]: file:///usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.kde.breeze.desktop/contents/components/UserList.qml:43:9: Unable to assign [undefined] to bool
Sep 07 09:04:55 d3v.localdomain wireplumber[1827]: 0x5580903a85f8: error 24
Sep 07 09:05:19 d3v.localdomain wireplumber[1827]: Failed to release transport /org/bluez/hci0/dev_2C_41_A1_64_2F_9A/sep3/fd15: Method "Release" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.MediaTransport1" doesn't exist
Sep 07 09:05:19 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: Stopped target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth.
Sep 07 09:05:19 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: Reached target bluetooth.target - Bluetooth.
Sep 07 09:05:20 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: file:///usr/lib64/qt5/qml/org/kde/plasma/extras/PlaceholderMessage.qml:238:5: QML Heading: Binding loop detected for property "verticalAlignment"
Sep 07 09:05:20 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.bluetooth/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml:33:32: QML Action: Accessible must be attached to an Item
Sep 07 09:05:20 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.bluetooth/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml:33:32: QML Action: Accessible must be attached to an Item
Sep 07 09:05:20 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: file:///usr/share/plasma/plasmoids/org.kde.plasma.bluetooth/contents/ui/DeviceItem.qml:33:32: QML Action: Accessible must be attached to an Item
Sep 07 09:05:20 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: org.kde.plasma.pulseaudio: No object for name "bluez_output.2C_41_A1_64_2F_9A.a2dp-sink"
Sep 07 09:05:22 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[139349]: kwin_core: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 27546, resource id: 123731996, major code: 129 (SHAPE), minor code: 6 (Input)
Sep 07 09:05:22 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[139349]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 27547, resource id: 123731996, major code: 2 (ChangeWindowAttributes), minor code: 0
Sep 07 09:05:22 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[139349]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 27558, resource id: 123732016, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Sep 07 09:06:15 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[139349]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 36782, resource id: 6291467, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Sep 07 09:07:12 d3v.localdomain plasmashell[139405]: QSocketNotifier: Socket notifiers cannot be enabled or disabled from another thread
Sep 07 09:11:14 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[139349]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 59033, resource id: 121634838, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0
Sep 07 09:11:14 d3v.localdomain systemd[1642]: app-vlc-9d6f99f395bb4ed6970761c95cab100c.scope: Consumed 2.111s CPU time.
Sep 07 09:11:14 d3v.localdomain kwin_x11[139349]: qt.qpa.xcb: QXcbConnection: XCB error: 3 (BadWindow), sequence: 59067, resource id: 31457654, major code: 18 (ChangeProperty), minor code: 0

Sorry for that much text, but you have asked

rowspan · September 16, 2022, 8:36am

I gave up and reinstalled the whole laptop with the F37 beta KDE Spin. And I am pleased. So far everything feels normal fast again.

What I noticed in the old, broken F36 was that the file /home/row/.local/share/kactivitymanagerd/resources/database-wal seemed very large at 12GB. In addition, MIDI had big timing problems, because it contained strong jitter when playing out to a hardware synthsizer that was connected via USB and enabled MIDI communication.

Testing different kernels did not change the problems. The last kernels that were installed from Fedora but also the kernels edge and rt (realtime) from xanmod were tested.

KDE was also completely uninstalled and reinstalled by using:

sudo dnf remove @kde-desktop
sudo dnf groupremove -y "KDE"

sudo dnf groupinstall "KDE Plasma Workspaces"
sudo dnf install @kde-desktop

I hope this helps someone else.
Best Regards