Gnome freezes when starting Gnome applications

vrothberg · 2015-05-18 18:15:07

jpamills wrote:

FIX: I've had this problem as well. Noticing it only happened when something was loading, and thus correlated with the "spinning wheel" cursor animation, I tried changing the cursor theme in gnome-tweak-tool to something else (away from Adwaitha). That fixed it. I'm currently using whiteglass from xcursor-themes and the freezing has disappeared.

I can confirm that. It's working for me as well. Well ... that's strange :-)

xyvab · 2015-05-18 22:18:26

Same problem here, and I confirm that changing cursor fixes the issue.

But honestly, GNOME gets worse and worse with every new update...

Last edited by xyvab (2015-05-18 22:18:46)

verlyn13 · 2015-05-19 08:26:34

I can confirm that changing the cursor fixed the problem for me. Ridiculous.

brix · 2015-05-19 14:54:17

Even stranger, perhaps: I've had no such problem with the default (Adwaita) cursors and GNOME 3.14 & 3.16.

ISTR an old issue that was somewhat similar, arising from a spurious "default" link (in addition to 'default.kde4 -> oxygen') in /usr/share/icons/, though I note that there's currently a file /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme with contents

[Icon Theme]
Inherits=Adwaita

The old business with the spurious soft link to Adwaita cursors had, as I recall, nothing to do with standard Arch or GNOME from the Arch repos.

bbarcher · 2015-05-19 16:53:28

Ridiculous indeed.
Could this be the right bug report?
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673400

JuNijland · 2015-05-20 19:43:20

Is there an easy way to change to cursor via the terminal? I can't even open my terminal in GNOME itself.

aexl · 2015-05-21 07:30:05

I have exactly the same problem on my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro. I didn't try the cursor thing, but I noticed that this bug only appears since Linux 4.0. Using the kernel 3.19.3 works just fine. Isn't that strange? What could be the reason for this? It also seems, that not everyone is affected by this bug, I don't have this problem on my desktop computer. Maybe we can locate the source of this problem. I'm using the following components:
- Intel graphics driver
- LVM on LUKS encryption of my harddrive
- ext4 filesystems

My desktop computer, where the problem does not occur, has
- nvidia graphics driver (the proprietary one)
- btrfs filesystem

mitras2 · 2015-05-21 08:45:11

I had the same problem. Switchin to another mouse cursor theme did solve the problem for me.
@aexl:
Yes this problem seen only to appear with a 4.0x Kernel installed.

I'm using a Lenovo Thinkpad X230i with:
- Intel Graphics
- NO encryption
- ext4 filesystem
- Gnome 3.16.2https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673400

@bbarcher
I do not think that the Bugreport Bug 673400 - While mouse cursor moves on activities, gnome-shell crashes sometimes. is coresponding to our problem, as their bug appears when moving over the "Activitys" panel in the top left, and our bug seems to correspont with the loading cursor...

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dega180 · 2015-05-21 11:12:07

JuNijland wrote:

Is there an easy way to change to cursor via the terminal? I can't even open my terminal in GNOME itself.

I don't know how to change the cursor theme via the terminal, but you can install linux-lts and configure your bootloader to boot with it.

aurocha · 2015-05-21 21:11:54

Yes there is.

1. pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz-aa (check existing xcursor packages via pacman -Ss xcursor)
2. edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
3. change Inherits=Adwaita to Inherits=Vanilla-DMZ-AA
4. using gnome-tweak-tool go to appearance and change the mouse cursor to match the new system-wide definition of the mouse cursor which will be applied following the above procedure.

Restart lightdm/gdm/sddm/whatever: systemctl restart gdm

I use xcursor-vanilla-dmz-aa because it's almost equal to the Adwaita icon.
If you want a white cursor just pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz. It might be a good idea to use that cursor just to see if it's being applied correctly.

I had to install xfce (pacman -S xfce xfce4-goodies) which is gtk2 based, simple and rock solid so I could launch gnome-tweak-tool or whatever app which was crashing.
I still have it installed in case anything goes wrong but you can just uninstall it by running pacman -Rsc xfce xfce4-goodies.

Oh, and I'm still using a 4.0 kernel from testing.

Take a look at this wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes .

Get back to us and tell us if it worked! For me it's working and I now have a usable Gnome 3.
And yes, that bug should be reported. It is ridiculous.

Regards,
- aurocha

Last edited by aurocha (2015-05-21 21:27:07)

reddraggone9 · 2015-05-23 06:33:56

This seems to have been reported here:
Gnome sometimes freezes when launching an application.

boza · 2015-05-25 00:46:39

Same problem here.

Occurs when only when I boot with the integrated Intel p3000 graphics. Using an NVIDIA card with nouveau the problem does not occur.

Starting the programs from a remote SSH session (export DISPLAY=:1) also does not lead to a hangup!

EDIT: can confirm that changing the cursor theme works!

Last edited by boza (2015-05-28 11:49:05)

benzene · 2015-05-27 08:59:50

Changing the cursor theme fixed it for me as well...wow.

I don't know what this means, but when I originally had the problem it would freeze when I tried to start a program in Gnome.
Then I would change to tty1 (any will probably do) and back to tty2 and the program will have successfully started.

lardon · 2015-05-27 11:35:41

EDIT: Workaround worked for me, too.

Same problem here, reposting from my own thread (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=197904)

I'm trying to run Gnome 3 with X (I disabled wayland for gdm as well.) I can log in all right, but when starting an application (terminal, firefox), the system will sometimes hang for several minutes in the middle of the animation. Gnome-shell appears to be stuck doing nothing and does not respond to signal 15 (killing it with SIGKILL sometimes fixes the problem).

I found a few suspicious logs (journalctl), but I don't know if they're related:

tings-daemon:580): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Error setting property 'PowerSaveMode' on interface org.gnome.Mutter.DisplayConfig: Timeout was reached (g-io-error-quark, 24)
...
systemd-logind: got pause for 13:77

There is nothing in dmesg.

Any insights?

Last edited by lardon (2015-05-28 06:27:48)

RossDoughty · 2015-06-06 05:41:39

aurocha wrote:

Yes there is.
1. pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz-aa (check existing xcursor packages via pacman -Ss xcursor)
2. edit /usr/share/icons/default/index.theme
3. change Inherits=Adwaita to Inherits=Vanilla-DMZ-AA
4. using gnome-tweak-tool go to appearance and change the mouse cursor to match the new system-wide definition of the mouse cursor which will be applied following the above procedure.
Restart lightdm/gdm/sddm/whatever: systemctl restart gdm
I use xcursor-vanilla-dmz-aa because it's almost equal to the Adwaita icon.
If you want a white cursor just pacman -S xcursor-vanilla-dmz. It might be a good idea to use that cursor just to see if it's being applied correctly.
I had to install xfce (pacman -S xfce xfce4-goodies) which is gtk2 based, simple and rock solid so I could launch gnome-tweak-tool or whatever app which was crashing.
I still have it installed in case anything goes wrong but you can just uninstall it by running pacman -Rsc xfce xfce4-goodies.
Oh, and I'm still using a 4.0 kernel from testing.
Take a look at this wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cursor_themes .
Get back to us and tell us if it worked! For me it's working and I now have a usable Gnome 3.
And yes, that bug should be reported. It is ridiculous.
Regards,
- aurocha

I only started using Arch yesterday. I wanted to use it as my daily driver.

Thank you so much for posting this, I was about ready to give up but I really did not want to let go of Gnome.

aexl · 2015-06-09 12:59:22

The problem seems to be resolved. I've just upgraded to linux-4.0.5-1 after having used 3.19.5 for a while, and I don't have the problem anymore. I've never changed the cursor settings, it just works now.

RossDoughty · 2015-06-09 14:56:50

aexl wrote:

The problem seems to be resolved. I've just upgraded to linux-4.0.5-1 after having used 3.19.5 for a while, and I don't have the problem anymore. I've never changed the cursor settings, it just works now.

Can confirm that the issue is now resolved for me as well. Happy days.

yepyang · 2015-06-09 17:53:40

my side upgraded to linux-4.0.5-1 as well,unforunately can not solve!whatever change the cirspr settings to check does can solve the problem!

bbarcher · 2015-07-06 15:37:16

The problem is gone for me as well. I'm on nvidia proprietary driver, the rest of the system config unaltered.

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