From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: kde application lock up for 2 minites or so when try to access file system for the first time: 1 start konqueror and hit home button it takes a while to bring up the home directory, or try "open location" and hit "open file dialog" button, takes a while to bring up the dialog, get through once then it quite normal. 2 start menu editor and hit "open file dialog" for command, same thing will happen. and it not always reproducible, sometimes it is ok. mozilla sometimes will lock up for a while too, for no specific reason. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kde 3.2.2 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.start konqueror. 2.hit home button. 3. Additional info: file system is ext2, 4g for / and 8g for /usr, with everything installed. kernel is 2.6.5-1.358smp.
A bit more info might help you to reproduce, when try to type a url on mozilla, or try to type password for email, mozilla lock up, that might be causes by klipper, then problem come.
i have tried to reproduce this problem several times, it's not reproducible here. Please report this problem in kde bugzilla upstream.