2012/4/30 Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>: >>>From time to time the Gnome shell will just freeze/hang and not accept any >>>input > > How often is "from time to time"? Is this related to specific > actions/circumstances, e.g. running an OpenGL game or something similar.
At least once a week. Usually I run these applications: chromium, gnome-terminal, geany, retext, evince. >> (keyboard or mouse) and all I can do is restart gdm3 or the laptop. > > So the system does not lock up completely? I.e you can still switch to > the console or access the system via e.g. SSH? Yes, the system is responsive but only Gnome is in a deep freeze. Even if I kill the front app from a tty the Gnome shell still displays it — all I can do is restart gdm3. >> Now I'm in >>> the same situation and the latest changes made in a document I'm writting >>> are >>> going to be lost as I have no way to save them. > > If you are able to still access the system via the console, you might > just kill the gnome-shell process, in which case it should be restarted. I'll do this next time. >> This is the second most annoying thing for me in Debian 7.0 (wheezy). I >> cannot >> tell what causes this, there is nothing in the syslog. >> I've attached the current process listing - maybe you can spot something. > > Unfortunately not. > Is it possible, that you compile gnome-shell with debug symbols [1] and > attach gdb when such a freeze occurs (if you are able to still access > the system). > > Which Xorg driver do you use? Do those freezes also occur with the > gnome-shell version from testing or is this something specific in 3.2.2.1-3? This is not specific to current version. I postponed this report until now just to test if Gnome 3.4 has the same problem. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
