On 11/18/2011 04:18 PM, Deron Meranda wrote: >>> today, twice, the system has hung completely as I opened a >>> new window. The new window was different on the two occasions; > I have no idea if it is related, but twice with F16 I've had Gnome > completely lock up. The mouse pointer would move, but otherwise the > screen was completely unresponsive, not even any of the keyboard hot > keys would work (Alt-F*, ctrl-alt-del, etc). > > However the OS was still running, and I could ssh in from another > machine. After killing the gnome session processes everything would be > okay, no reboot needed. > > When it locked it up I was usually "playing" pretty hard with the > gnome interface, opening and closing windows quickly, etc. I do use > emacs, but none of my lockups involved interaction with any emacs > windows. > > Using gnome-shell-3.2.1-2.fc16.x86_64 > I've had a few gnome-shell hangs with f16. In all cases, ctrl-alt-backspace worked to kill it and it then restarted. Regards, John -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines