On 11/19/2011 12:33 AM, Deron Meranda wrote: > Since upgrading to Fedora 16, I have experienced several periodic hard > lock-ups of the Gnome Shell session. I never experienced such > behaviour in F15. I am wondering if anybody else is seeing something > similar or may have advice, or can suggest a better way for me to > gather useful debugging information should it happen again. .. > > Otherwise, I don't have much else to report at this point. Any help to > figure this out would be appreciated. Thanks. The symptoms you describe are strongly suggestive of a bug with the gnome window manager itself (shell?) which very likely has crashed - the mouse events continue to be handled by X itself but consumption by the window manager not being available. I wonder if its possible to ssh in to your semi-frozen computer and point gdb at the appropriate process? If you can indeed ssh in then it would be interesting to run top and see if there is a process stuck in a loop or if (as seems most likely) the window manager itself has crashed and died - in which case restarting it may well revive the desktop. In the latter case - please attach gdb to the process (from your remote ssh login) and leave it running until the next crash - then get a backtrace - that should be helpful to the gnome-shell devs. gene [PS please don't cross post to fedora-list@redhat - its a dead list] -- 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
