gnome-shell desktop freezes sometimes in F17

[Tom London]

On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 3:53 PM, pringler01 at gmail.com
<pringler01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mar 18, 2012 6:12 PM, "Adam Williamson" <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, 2012-03-18 at 13:57 -0700, Rob Healey wrote:
>> > Dear Joachim Backes:
>> >
>> > From: Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
>> > To: Fedora test <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>> > Cc:
>> > Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 08:15:43 +0100
>> > Subject: gnome-shell desktop freezes sometimes in F17
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > there are 2 situations where my gnome3 desktop sometimes freezes:
>> >
>> > Over the last two days, I have noticed that my entire computer will
>> > freeze up, and I have to do a hard shut-down for it to work again!
>> >
>> > It really makes me angry!  I make random saves of my work when I am
>> > working on my computer, but it still seems to catch me before I am
>> > done...
>> >
>> > I have not been able to determine when or what might be doing to
>> > trigger it...
>>
>> The Shell freeze Joachim and I have seen isn't a complete system freeze,
>> you can ctrl-alt-f2 to a console and kill gnome-shell to recover from
>> it.
>
> Hi, before the last update I could do that.
> maybe er have different versions? or maybe the hardware is different?
>
>

Not sure this is the same, but after getting freeze earlier today, I
just got a bus error core dump from gnome-shell.

BZ'ed here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=804465

tom
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Tom London