The shell freezes on me at least once every couple of weeks. The only temporary solution that I'm aware of is to open another terminal window ctrl+alt+F2 and issue the command:
pkill -HUP gnome-shell
logout and ctrl+alt+F1 to get back to your Gnome-Shell.
]]>Have you reported this as a bug?
Nope, I didn't cause the issue is even more prevalent in gnome-shell 3.8.3-1. There is a bug report filed on this : FS #32735
]]>I always figured it was a cgroup error. The GPU only hangs for me when the system goes on idle. I figured the cgroup canceled something in gnome shell to conserve resources.
The problem can be replicated with both xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-intel drivers.
Have you reported this as a bug?
]]>It only seems to happen when messing with Spotify. If I ALT+F4 the Spotify window, GNOME becomes responsive again. Can anyone reproduce this?
]]>The problem can be replicated with both xf86-video-ati and xf86-video-intel drivers.
]]>I just wanted to post that I have had a new crash today, and it has occurred to me that every crash I have encountered was while working in Libreoffice. I don't know if it is important or not.
I installed KDE for the first time and was able to finish my work in Libreoffice without crashing. I do hope Gnome figures this bug out...
]]>Does anyone happen to know whether this occurs on other distributions as well?
]]>Today I was working in Libreoffice as my screen froze. I kept typing for a few seconds before noticing the freeze and rebooting.
Libreoffice was able to recover my document, together with the text I had typed in those 'final seconds', so my guess is it's only the output that freezes, and not the window manager or other programs.
Logs are only complaining about Infinality fonts, but those warnings have been there for several months and the freezes only started out a couple of weeks ago. JournalCtl is empty.
]]>Same problem here.. Only happens on this machine though, so I've been suspecting the ATi drivers, since all my other systems have Nvidia cards in them.
No I don't think so, because it also happens to my Nvidia laptop.
]]>My way of getting around this is by going into another TTY and restarting gdm or x.
]]>caiocon wrote:Hi everyone.
I'm an Arch with gnome user since 2008. For the last 6 months though I've been using Ubuntu to check on the new and now stable unity interface, so I can compare it with gnome-shell. Turns out, 4 days ago I reinstalled arch and came back to the brand new gnome 3.6.
Well, things are not as stable as they were when gnome 3, 3.2 and 3.4 were launched. I'm having issues like my notification bar missing randomly (although i've already found out there is a bug ticket for that), but, the most anoying problem is the fact that from time to time, aparently with no reason, all open windows become unresponsive. I can't input anything to them, either with mouse nor keyboard; I can't resize them or move them around. I can open the overview and even launch new aplications, but the new windows behave the same way. The alt+f2 shortcut doesn't work, so I can't restart the gnome-shell. The fix to that is going to tty2, login in and restart gdm (or reboot).
Is anyone else experiencing these issues? Do you have any solutions to that? Any information if it has been solved in the new 3.6.2 update yet to come to the stable repos?
Thanks for any help.
I don't think your problem is gnome related because i am a KDE user and i experience the same freezing for about two weeks but it happens very rarely - maybe two times in week.
The same here, but i got this freezes just under gnome. Also annoying is the disappearing bar like caiocon wrote
or the black background if you open dash, which should show your desktop. Especially if u are chatting over empathy and you get no pop up messages anymore,
and can not answer until you open Chat window by yourself.. It's really sad to see gnome that buggy, cz i like this kind of shell.
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