I logged vmstat 2 output [1]. Here are the last 300 lines that show the situation before and after the crash till I rebooted. I can't really read much out of it, but maybe someone else? For some reason this time it took a while for the problem to show up again (several days). I wonder if that has anything to do with me setting up a swap that I didn't use before. My main memory is more than sufficient though. @Tuxce: Killing the gnome-shell process restarts the gnome shell but will result in an immediate freeze again. The only solution is restarting the system. Thanks, Max [1] http://pastebin.com/CZiMj347 On 04.11.2011 22:10, Tuxce wrote:
Le 4 nov. 2011 à 20:51, Magnus Therning a écrit :
On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Max wrote:
Dear arch users and developers,
I have posted this issue also in the archlinux forum [1]. I didn't get much feedback there. So I'm hoping some people here might have an idea of how to resolve the problem.
Problem: gnome shell freezes from time to time (actually daily).
Freezing: "Freezing" means, the screen becomes unresponsive but everything seems to continue working (sound and videos continue playing; even the mouse pointer can still be moved). Most of the time I'm able to switch to a virtual console although sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds after CTRL+ALT+F1 to show up. Then, however, everything is running smoothly. It's not possible to restart X since it will freeze again at the gdm login screen, or even without using gdm when loading the desktop.
What triggers the problem: Usually it happens while scrolling on websites or pdfs. I feel like it happens more often if there are large images.
Hardware: IBM T60 ATI X1400
I think it's an issue with the open source radeon drivers. However, this problem doesn't occur using other desktop environments. I tried to look into some log files but I couldn't find noticeable error messages.
This happens to me fairly rarely, but still often enough to be irritating.
For me it has only ever happened when I use the logo key to jump into the Activities Overview and start typing to search for an application. The only way out of it seems to be to jump out to a console and kill gnome-session or restart gdm.
Send SIGHUP to gnome-shell will save you from losing your session. pkill -HUP gnome-shell
/M
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