I’ve had a stable Manjaro-KDE install for several months now, but was missing i3 so decided to install it and use it as the Window Manager for KDE. Everything seemed to have gone fine, but now certain programs will randomly hang. I’ve experienced it happen so far with Firefox and Dolphin file manager.
At first I thought the issue was Firefox, so I followed some advice on Firefox support pages, but I never had issues with Dolphin before so I believe the problem is widerspread than I originally thought.
Things I know do work: Falkon browser, Discord, Emacs, Alacritty, System Settings
Things I know don’t work: Firefox, Dolphin file manager
I just ran sudo pacman-mirrors -f 5 && sudo pacman -Syyu
following the advice of another post on this forum. And if I run inxi -Fxxxza
it outputs the following (ignoring what I think isn’t important):
System: Kernel: 5.4.62-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 10.2.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.4-x86_64
root=UUID=eb887475-bbaf-4f0c-a2cb-0aea32574e16 rw quiet udev.log_priority=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.19.5 tk: Qt 5.15.0 wm: i3 4.18.2 dm: SDDM
Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Convertible System: LENOVO product: 20EMCTO1WW v: ThinkPad Yoga 460
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 31 serial: <filter>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 20EMCTO1WW v: SDK0J40697 WIN serial: <filter> UEFI: LENOVO
v: R05ET68W (1.46) date: 11/23/2016
CPU: Topology: Dual Core model: Intel Core i7-6500U bits: 64 type: MT MCP
arch: Skylake family: 6 model-id: 4E (78) stepping: 3 microcode: D6
L2 cache: 4096 KiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx
bogomips: 20810
Speed: 500 MHz min/max: 400/3100 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 500 2: 500 3: 500
4: 500
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit status: KVM: Split huge pages
Type: l1tf
mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass
mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1
mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB: conditional,
IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds status: Vulnerable: No microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics: Device-1: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] vendor: Lenovo driver: i915
v: kernel bus ID: 00:02.0 chip ID: 8086:1916
Device-2: Chicony Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo bus ID: 1-7:3
chip ID: 04f2:b5c1
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.8 driver: intel unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa display ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1920x1080 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 508x285mm (20.0x11.2")
s-diag: 582mm (22.9")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1920x1080 hz: 60 dpi: 157 size: 310x170mm (12.2x6.7")
diag: 354mm (13.9")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel HD Graphics 520 (SKL GT2) v: 4.6 Mesa 20.1.7
direct render: Yes
Info: Processes: 195 Uptime: 5h 26m Memory: 15.53 GiB used: 2.33 GiB (15.0%)
Init: systemd v: 246 Compilers: gcc: 10.2.0 clang: 10.0.1 Packages:
pacman: 1481 lib: 385 Shell: Zsh v: 5.8 running in: alacritty inxi: 3.1.05
If anyone is able to help out with this it would be greatly appreciated.
tl;dr Everything worked fine until I installed i3 to use with KDE, now things hang randomly.