Hi Anthony, I can sympathise, I have similar problems with my netbook. I get the impression that there is a bug in the nouveau driver which locks up the part of the drawing hardware and so stalls all output. I can move the mouse and the pointer moves but nothing else is drawn and the keyboard input is stopped also (no caps-lock light activity). Displaying video content seems to provoke the bug but sometimes it happens anyway. Sometimes you can watch a whole video without it locking up, maybe it's unrelated. If you can ctrl-alt-f2 to kill gnome shell then you might find ctrl-alt-backspace (which restarts the Xserver) might be a shortcut. I haven't filed bugs because I don't have an easy reproduced situation or any relevant log output :( If I hoped for a workaround I'd post on the fedora IRC channel, or fedora-devel mailing list, failing that I'd probably raise a bug on bugzilla. -Cam On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Anthony Vanover <anthonyisageek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My CPU architecture doesn't support 64-bit. I would say that I do high > I/O Operations though. I have a 2TB Seagate external HDD and often move > ~60 gigs or so around, compress about that amount in 7z (encrypted), > bulk rename thousands of files, and some other things with scripts. > Also, I usually have several tabs in Firefox when this happens. If it > were lack of CPU though; I'd expect the effect to be immediate, but I > have the tabs open for a while without issue. > >> Message: 3 >> Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:45:55 +0530 >> From: Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur@xxxxxxxxx> >> To: laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Subject: Re: GNOME 3 Freezing >> Message-ID: <1326006955.6689.24.camel@xxxxxxxx> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >> >> On Sat, 2012-01-07 at 22:12 -0500, William Henry wrote: >> > How many monitors are you using? >> > >> > It's probably not this - because you can get at the shell - but I notice sometimes my lock screen doesn't display the password popup on a monitor ( or more accurately displays it on a monitor it is not displaying anything on). When I type my password it unlocks and both screens then display as normal. >> > >> > William >> > >> > >> > On Jan 7, 2012, at 6:57 PM, Anthony Vanover <anthonyisageek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > > For some reason, Fedora freezes after an unspecified amount of time. I'm >> > > able to move the mouse but everything else is unresponsive. So I just >> > > switch to console <CTRL>+<ALT>+<F2> and use "killall -s HUP gnome-shell" >> > > in root shell (#). Haven't tested any of the other Desktop managers but >> > > I'm pretty sure this is the only one. >> > > >> > > -- >> >> Please file bugs. I haven't come across these situations while using >> gnome3. The screen freeze does happen if you're using a 64bit kernel and >> making high i/o related operations. Its a kernel bug, fixed in 3.2 > > -- > Sending sensitive information? Use PGP? > Then grab my public key available @ > anthonyvanover.tk/public.asc > > _______________________________________________ > laptop mailing list > laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop _______________________________________________ laptop mailing list laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/laptop
