Frequent lockups :(

[brian]

On Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:15:10 -0500, you wrote:

>+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.
>
Well, I downloaded the files to install the GNOME desktop, and also a
couple of live images. Then I spent a day with intermittent use of the
PC using Chromium as my browser, and got not a single crash. 

But OK, I will take the advice of you both, and see about installing
4.12. For reasons I've mentioned previously, I simply can't do this by
moving to Sid, so it will have to be a case of me trying to build and
install XFCE myself. Since I had a day with no crash using Chromium,
there's somewhat less impetus, I think I'll set up a virtual machine
to have a play with. 

I'll report back in a few days (again, the downloads will take me
time, everything must be done between 0200 and 0700). 

Brian. 


>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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