Weird rawhide desktop behavior

Lucas Meneghel Rodrigues lookkas at gmail.com
Sat Mar 24 22:37:38 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet-ft at lwn.net> wrote:
> Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while,
> though I've seen it before.  I'm not sure where to file a bug on this
> one...
>
> In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the desktop
> goes completely dead - no response to any key or mouse events.  That said,
> the X server is still running; the pointer still moves with the mouse.  I
> can also switch to another virtual console with alt-ctrl-Fn.  Sometimes
> things start working again after some time (measured in minutes);
> sometimes I lose patience and start over.  Today I went and made lunch and
> it never came back.

I've noticed the same behavior on my box, that was freshly installed
with Fedora 17 last Friday. I'll see what I can do to gather
information about the problem as well.

-- 
Lucas


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