panel and desktop broken

[Glenn Holmer]

On 06/21/2015 11:41 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Glenn Holmer wrote:
> 
>> On 06/04/2015 09:30 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> Glenn Holmer wrote:
>>>
>>>> From time to time, I've seen that the panel, while it appears, becomes
>>>> unresponsive (right- or left-click does nothing). When this happens, the
>>>> desktop (right-click) also becomes non-responsive.
>>>>
>>>> Normally, I've been able to recover from this by dropping to console and
>>>> issuing "systemctl restart sddm", but this morning even that doesn't
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody else seen this? Know of a workaround or fix?
>>>
>>> It's a not uncommon problem of plasmashell process getting stuck and
>>> deadlocked (often due to some as-yet-unexplained interaction between
>>> libxcb and video drivers).
>>>
>>> the easiest workaround is to restart the plasmashell process:
>>>
>>> ALT-F2(krunner): killall plasmashell
>>> (wait a few moments)
>>> ALT-F2(krunner): plasmashell
>>
>> I just had this problem again and restarting plasmashell didn't help.
>> Neither did dropping to console and restarting sddm. I actually
>> rebooted, which is unthinkable.
>>
>> I have to tell you, MATE is looking better and better to me.
> 
> Sounds like you're having bigger issues, and I'd suspect video driver-
> related ones now... so maybe considering something that doesn't use 
> compositing/opengl is indeed one option.

Really? You think nouveau has problems that cause this?

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