Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Hi, > > Debian Bullseye with latest Mate as DM. > > Every now and again, something happens whenever Firefox is loaded and > the whole screen is locked. I can't open a terminal and I can't move > between workplaces (ctrl + alt + left/right). > > Then I have to switch to a virtual terminal (ctrl + alt + F2), check > "top", but there is plenty of CPU and RAM available. > > Nothing weird in either dmesg, /var/log/messages or /var/log/Xorg.0.log, > apart from: > > (EE) event0 - AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: client bug: event > processing lagging behind by 33ms, your system is too slow
i've seen those in the past but i don't think they're critical. > [BTW libinput is a pain in the a. on my Thinkpad T440) > > I do: > > $ killall mate-panel # nothing happens in graphical mode > $ killall firefox # Then I restart FF but the freeze happens again > # killall Xorg # Xorg restarts, I log in and restart FF, but the same > freeze happens > # reboot # That's the only thing that fixes it. > > Where do I go from here? i run Mate and testing with the exception that i keep firefox running whichever version comed out and hits unstable. that pulls a few other things in but not many and it is ok for my purposes. some months ago i was having the same sort of experience but i was never able to figure out which it was that was causing me problems. an upgrade must have fixed it because the problem went away. the other day i had it happen again. i'd not installed the latest firefox from sid so after i restarted the system i prompty did that. when the freeze happens there is no way for me to get input of any kind, how are you getting the system to respond to you at all? for me i have to hit the switch to restart. none of the alt-windows or the restart of X keys work. songbird
