I logged vmstat 2 output [1]. Here are the last 300 lines that show the situation before and after the crash till I rebooted. I can't really read much out of it, but maybe someone else? For some reason this time it took a while for the problem to show up again (several days). I wonder if that has anything to do with me setting up a swap that I didn't use before. My main memory is more than sufficient though. @Tuxce: Killing the gnome-shell process restarts the gnome shell but will result in an immediate freeze again. The only solution is restarting the system. Thanks, Max [1] http://pastebin.com/CZiMj347 On 04.11.2011 22:10, Tuxce wrote: > Le 4 nov. 2011 à 20:51, Magnus Therning a écrit : > >> On Thu, Nov 03, 2011 at 12:08:31PM +0200, Max wrote: >>> Dear arch users and developers, >>> >>> I have posted this issue also in the archlinux forum [1]. I didn't get >>> much feedback there. So I'm hoping some people here might have an idea >>> of how to resolve the problem. >>> >>> Problem: >>> gnome shell freezes from time to time (actually daily). >>> >>> Freezing: >>> "Freezing" means, the screen becomes unresponsive but everything seems >>> to continue working (sound and videos continue playing; even the mouse >>> pointer can still be moved). Most of the time I'm able to switch to a >>> virtual console although sometimes it takes 10-20 seconds after >>> CTRL+ALT+F1 to show up. Then, however, everything is running smoothly. >>> It's not possible to restart X since it will freeze again at the gdm >>> login screen, or even without using gdm when loading the desktop. >>> >>> What triggers the problem: >>> Usually it happens while scrolling on websites or pdfs. I feel like it >>> happens more often if there are large images. >>> >>> Hardware: >>> IBM T60 >>> ATI X1400 >>> >>> I think it's an issue with the open source radeon drivers. However, this >>> problem doesn't occur using other desktop environments. I tried to look >>> into some log files but I couldn't find noticeable error messages. >> >> This happens to me fairly rarely, but still often enough to be >> irritating. >> >> For me it has only ever happened when I use the logo key to jump into >> the Activities Overview and start typing to search for an application. >> The only way out of it seems to be to jump out to a console and kill >> gnome-session or restart gdm. >> > Send SIGHUP to gnome-shell will save you from losing your session. > pkill -HUP gnome-shell > >> /M >> >> -- >> Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 >> email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx >> twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus >> >> Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with >> millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural >> integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. >> -- Alan Kay >
