On Ma, 19 nov 13, 22:40:56, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > I am running Gnome launched from GDM3. When I select regular Gnome (ie > "new" Gnome with the bells and whistles) it works for a while and then > randomly freezes -- often but not exclusively when I am trying to switch > desktops, watch a video, or do something like that. Once it freezes, the > load on the machine starts going up and up and up until eventually the > machine becomes completely unresponsive in all ways and there's no recourse > but to reboot. If I am quick, I can log in remotely from another machine, > kill GDM3, and the machine recovers to a text terminal, where I can log in > and relaunch GDM3. Then everything works for a while, until the cycle > repeats.
Could you please try to run following command before killing gdm3 and
post the output here?
top -b -n 1
Kind regards,
Andrei
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