On Sat, 2011-12-31 at 14:36 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote: > My desktop siezes up every hour or so; > I can continue in the current desktop, > but cannot change to another desktop > or go to another application by clicking on an icon in the panel.
gnome shell locks up for me at least once a day. I can continue working in the apps I have open and that are up on the screen, but I can't alt-tab to anything else, or open new apps. The entire top and bottom bars cease to work. > The problem cures itself in 20-30 seconds, > so it is not life-threatening. Once gnome shell locks up for me, it doesn't recover. > I killall-ed upowerd, but that didn't do the trick. > There is nothing untoward in /var/log/messages. If I'm lucky and I have gnome terminal open, I can find the PID for gnome shell and then send it a SIGHUP. That always restarts gnome shell, making it usable again. The added bonus I get to stay signed into my current gnome session. Before I knew I could do the above, I always issued a ctrl-alt-backspace, which kills my entire gnome session. However, I still sometimes have to do this because I don't always have a terminal front and centre, and sometimes switching to a tty (to restart gnome-shell as above) doesn't work either. > The problem could be to do with Firefox or KDE or Fedora; > I'm not sure which. I have found no pattern in my lock-ups. They are completely random. > I've seen a few comments on this, > but has anyone found a cure? I'm not if you are experiencing the same problem I am. It sounds like it's similar. For the most part, I actually like gnome shell, but it's buggy. I miss my old, stable Gnome 2. :( Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.41.4-1.fc15.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 10:35:14 up 18 days, 12:53, 2 users, load average: 1.42, 1.56, 1.39 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
