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<br><div>> Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:37:38 -0300<br>> Subject: Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior<br>> From: lookkas@gmail.com<br>> To: test@lists.fedoraproject.org<br>> <br>> On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet-ft@lwn.net> wrote:<br>> > Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while,<br>> > though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug on this<br>> > one...<br>> ><br>> > In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the desktop<br>> > goes completely dead - no response to any key or mouse events. That said,<br>> > the X server is still running; the pointer still moves with the mouse. I<br>> > can also switch to another virtual console with alt-ctrl-Fn. Sometimes<br>> > things start working again after some time (measured in minutes);<br>> > sometimes I lose patience and start over. Today I went and made lunch and<br>> > it never came back.<br>> <br>> I've noticed the same behavior on my box, that was freshly installed<br>> with Fedora 17 last Friday. I'll see what I can do to gather<br>> information about the problem as well.<br>> <br>> -- <br>> Lucas<br><br>I've been seeing similar behaviour in F16 for quite some time. Usually, it happens<br>when I am in the middle of something else and don't have time to try to track it down,<br>and when I do have time for trying to figure it out, it doesn't happen. It does seem to<br>occur more frequently when my box is a little warm, so I assumed that it was hardware<br>related.<br><br>John.<br></div> </div></body>
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