[Discuss] Unexplained GUI lockups

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

Recently I've been experiencing a lockup of the GUI (Gnome 3), Fedora
16. It appears to occur when I click a link in Thunderbird 11.01. The
only other things running are gnome terminal and Firefox 11.0 both 64-bit.
When this occurs the mouse pointer is a fist with an index finger.
Additionally, it appears that GDM itself is locked up since alt-tab does
not work, and it I mouse over to Actitivies, I can't get the Gnome
screen. I can move the mouse with no hesitation.

Here is one interesting event in the GDM log.
[mi] EQ overflowing. The server is probably stuck in an infinite loop.
Seems to be documented bug in red Hat Bugzilla: 465884


However, I can ssh into my system from my Smartphone.
Fedora 16
kernel is 3.3.1-3.fc16.x86_64
Gnome shell is 3.2.2.1-1.fc16.x86_64
Video driver is Nouveau.

One possible solution is to try to use the nvidia driver again. This was
a bit of a pain, but as long as I install the akmods things should be ok.



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