On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:59:44AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Chris Murphy lists@colorremedies.com wrote:
Keep in mind the baremetal system that it consistently happens on, has a VM running in which it does not happen.
The other manifestations are google searches and account switches hanging. For search, I usually use the URL field to do the search and then hit return. The typical result is nearly instant but no results are displayed, just the google search bar and under that the qualifiers All Video News Maps Imaging Shopping, and then white space where there should be search results but there are none. I click reload icon on the right side of the URL field but instead of reloading, the URL field is replaced by gray "Search or Enter Address" as if nothing had previously been entered or loaded. If I try again using the exact same steps, it works normally. It's a total crap shoot.
Putting on my Way-back-hat, that sounds like what I used to see when multiple processes were trying to read from stdin at the same time.
For me it happened most often on Solaris when X would crash and the display manager would not restart. There might be a shell process and a terminal login process, or two login processes competing for the tty input.
Jon