That may be related, but it's definitely not the nouveau driver in my
case, since I don't use an nVidia GPU. Also, it takes a really long time
for it to finally switch over to terminal. You might try out the key
combo and wait a while to see what happens. Here's my GPU info:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960
Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Pavilion dv6700
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information: Len=0a
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Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (primary) (rev 0c)
(prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
Memory at f8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 1800 [size=8]
Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled]
Capabilities: [90] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable-
64bit-
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
Kernel driver in use: i915
Kernel modules: i915
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960
Integrated Graphics Controller (secondary) (rev 0c)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 30cc
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Memory at f8100000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 3
On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 08:32 +0000,
laptop-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Message: 2
> Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:59:37 +0000
> From: Camilo Mesias <camilo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: wizard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: laptop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: GNOME 3 Freezing
> Message-ID:
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> 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
> >
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