On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 11:43 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
On 03/24/2012 11:12 AM, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
> On 03/24/2012 05:58 PM, Jonathan Corbet 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.
>
> Hmm
>
> I think there was a lock screen bug mentioned upstream that fits this
> description...
>
> JBG
Same thing happened to me with RC1 Gnome on 64 bit. Yum update was running
in one window and I was surfing in another, each window taking up about
half the
1080x1920 monitor. All of a sudden Firefox stopped responding and Yum
ground to a halt.
The mouse cursor still followed mouse movements, but the keyboard and
mouse keys
were dead. No Ctrl-Alt-Fn did anything. No LED response to CapsLock
etc.. Some
background process accessed the HD from time to time. I had to use the
hardware reset.
Yum was hopelessly confused so I reinstalled RC1 and ran yum update from
a console
terminal. Hooray for Xfce which works better now. Everyone I know of
who uses Linux
as a tool rather dislikes Gnome 3, so let's make sure Xfce works properly.
Josh - to me, the above sound vaguely like that interrupt problem I
have, the one we were talking about the other day, where I have to hold
down keys for half a second before they register. Could it be the same?
Jonathan, Chuck - if you try holding down a key that ought to do
something for half a second instead of just pressing it, does it work?
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