Apologies, the Mail-Followup-To header got messed up on my previous email, so Pocket's reply was not copied to the list.
Pocket wrote on 27/03/2026 00:55: > On 3/26/26 8:11 PM, Roger Lynn wrote: >> On 26 Mar 2026, Michel Verdier wrote: >>> On 2026-03-25, Roger Lynn wrote: >>>> Any ideas for what's going on or how to fix it, please? >>> Try to keep a top (package procps) running to find if it is a >>> memory or cpu problem >> There is nothing using significant amounts of CPU or memory, confirmed in >> another virtual console. The machine has not yet been heavily used and the >> hangs seem unrelated to how much is running, sometimes occurring with >> nothing more than aptitude running in an xterm. >> > I have seen this before on a Raspberry pi 5 > > My research has found it is PCManFM-Qt, which is the file manager > > I have not figured out exactly what causes this other than it > > crashes and the desktop become unresponsive until it "resets" > > its self and restarts. It is linked to some type if disk io, like > > the drive is not responsive and file manager disappears. Thanks for the suggestion. So far I have made very little use of the file manager, but I see that the process is running, so I will look at that next time it happens. Roger
