Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:37:38 -0300
Subject: Re: Weird rawhide desktop behavior
From: lookkas(a)gmail.com
To: test(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet <corbet-ft(a)lwn.net> wrote:
> Here's a strange pathology that just bit me for the first time in a while,
> though I've seen it before. I'm not sure where to file a bug on this
> one...
>
> In short: I'll be working away, minding my own business, when the desktop
> goes completely dead - no response to any key or mouse events. That said,
> the X server is still running; the pointer still moves with the mouse. I
> can also switch to another virtual console with alt-ctrl-Fn. Sometimes
> things start working again after some time (measured in minutes);
> sometimes I lose patience and start over. Today I went and made lunch and
> it never came back.
I've noticed the same behavior on my box, that was freshly installed
with Fedora 17 last Friday. I'll see what I can do to gather
information about the problem as well.
--
Lucas
I've been seeing similar behaviour in F16 for quite some time. Usually, it happens
when I am in the middle of something else and don't have time to try to track it
down,
and when I do have time for trying to figure it out, it doesn't happen. It does seem
to
occur more frequently when my box is a little warm, so I assumed that it was hardware
related.
John.