[Discuss] Unexplained GUI lockups

[jayburrill at hotmail.com (Jay Burrill)]

I have had no luck with the NVIDIA drivers on my Dell Precision, and find the Nouveau driver more stable under Fedora 16 than I did with other distros.  That said, I too don't have the same scenario as you, but I use Evolution for better Exchange support.  I occasionally have display lockups when I suspend/resume but usually if I close the lid again, and open after a pause, the driver gets kicked into motion.
I have noticed some intermittent issues, but chalked these up to the all-too-frequent kernel updates that have been coming down.  And, look, another one!

/Jay Burrill 

> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 10:46:35 -0400
> From: tkoker at gmail.com
> To: gaf at blu.org
> CC: discuss at blu.org
> Subject: Re: [Discuss] Unexplained GUI lockups
> 
> Hi,
> 
>    I have a similar problem, but different setup: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on Gnome
> 2 (not using nVidia drivers, either, though).
>    I have had the lockup in two cases, running Firefox 11 (64 bit), and,
> running IE 8 in a Win XP session of Virtual Box.
>    Mouse works fine, but the keyboard won't even toggle the Caps or Num
> Lock (lights) but I can use ssh, and do, to gracefully shutdown VMs and
> reboot the main (PITA).
> 
> Tony Koker
> 
> 
> On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 10:26 AM, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> 
> > 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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> > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> > Boston Linux and Unix
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