[Discuss] Unexplained GUI lockups

[Jerry Feldman]

Seems to be much more prevalent than I thought. I used to have some
occasional lockups under SuSE occasionally,m but I don't recall
experiencing these lockups under either Fedora or Ububntu. This seems to
be somewhat related to Thunderbird's clicking on a link.

Additionally, Thunderbird freezes up for about a minute every so often,
but this is a much different situation.

On 04/15/2012 10:46 AM, Tony Koker wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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