On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:59:44AM -0700, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Chris Murphy
<lists(a)colorremedies.com> wrote:
Keep in mind the baremetal system that it consistently happens on, has
a VM running in which it does not happen.
The other manifestations are google searches and account switches
hanging. For search, I usually use the URL field to do the search and
then hit return. The typical result is nearly instant but no results
are displayed, just the google search bar and under that the
qualifiers All Video News Maps Imaging Shopping, and then white space
where there should be search results but there are none. I click
reload icon on the right side of the URL field but instead of
reloading, the URL field is replaced by gray "Search or Enter Address"
as if nothing had previously been entered or loaded. If I try again
using the exact same steps, it works normally. It's a total crap
shoot.
Putting on my Way-back-hat, that sounds like what I used to
see when multiple processes were trying to read from stdin
at the same time.
For me it happened most often on Solaris when X would crash
and the display manager would not restart. There might be
a shell process and a terminal login process, or two login
processes competing for the tty input.
Jon
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