Frequent lockups :(

phm moonpunter at gmail.com
Tue Mar 29 18:15:10 CEST 2016


+1 on it being worth moving to 4.12. If this is an XFCE bug you've
identified, I _really_ doubt it exists in the current stack. It may also
not technically be a bug if it's related to external things that changed
in the meantime, whereas that branch is no longer the main effort.

Olivier Fourdan wrote:
>
>
> On 29 March 2016 at 18:05, brian <brian at meadows.pair.com
> <mailto:brian at meadows.pair.com>> wrote:
>
>
>     I did try leaving the PC for an extended time (around 30 minutes) but
>     it was still non-responsive. There's no way for me to navigate
>     anywhere when it happens, neither keyboard nor mouse produce any
>     effect.
>
>
> ​ You cannot really debug such problems from the system itself, best
> to to ssh to the machine from another box and try to see if a proc​ess
> is hogging on the CPU for example.
>
> It could also be that one X11 app is having an active grab on the
> pointer and keyboard, thus preventing any other user interaction (that
> appears like a lockup except that the screen still refreshes, the
> mouse pointer still moves, etc.)
>
> Also, xfce 4.10 is a bit old (even more considering the pace of xfce
> releases...) - But it's next to impossible to root cause such issues
> remotely, you need to first investigate on your side.
>
> Cheers,
> Olivier
>
>
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