[Discuss] Unexplained GUI lockups

[guy at the-golds.us (Guy Gold)]

On Sun, 2012-04-15 at 10:26 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote
>Recently I've been experiencing a lockup of the GUI (Gnome 3), Fedora
> 16.

Same here, my Acer laptop has been locking up, 3-4 times a week
(at-least), when using fedora 15 and 16 i386, especially when more than
one user is logged in . I'm not sure which driver Fedora used, I'm using
CentOs 6.2  now , lspci -v shows  "Kernel driver in use: i915 "


>  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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