Comment 79 for bug 358533

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In , Vincent-rubiolo (vincent-rubiolo) wrote :

(In reply to comment #70)
> Also getting this bug (Ubutu 12.04 - KDE 4.8.5). I usually get by using the
> following:
> 1. Lazy unmount of the problematic mount point (sudo umount -l
> /mnt/mountpoint).
> 2. Restart plasma : killall plasma-desktop && plasma-desktop That allows the
> panel to unfreeze. Unfortunately, it also pollutes the notification area
> with lots of spurious notification entries, resulting in a smaller
> (width-speaking) taskbar/paenl. I have to manually hide those to get back to
> the actual panel width (see screenshot).
>
> Is there something we can do to help as users (getting backtraces, etc) so
> that this problem is fixed?

Forgot to mention that you'll also need to restart krunner in this case, otherwise you'll also lose handling of some keyboard shortcuts (esp Ctl-Alt-L to lock your desktop).