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
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