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Hi. I'm new to Arch, just installed it last week and already love it. However, I have been experiencing some random freezes (using gnome) where I can move the cursor but can't interact with anything nor write with the keyboard. These freezes are becoming more frequent, with a few minutes between them, sometimes even less, and using the System Monitor I discovered each time my PC freezes one of the cores of the CPU goes to the top for a few seconds (the duration of the freeze).
Any suggestions on what could be wrong?
Thanks!
Last edited by JRizzoA (2015-07-08 03:19:35)
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Which applications are you running while the system starts freezing?
You could run 'top' to monitor which program consumes that much of the CPU.
EDIT: You should rather run 'top -o %CPU', unless you have edited your toprc accordingly.
Last edited by respiranto (2015-07-06 17:58:09)
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Right now I only have chromium, gnome-terminal, and a PDF in evince opened.
I ran 'top -o %CPU' as you suggested, and gnome-shell appears to be the problem. It has 2.0% of the CPU when everything is ok, but it suddenly becomes 100% for a few seconds.
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I'm sorry. I don't use GNOME, nor do I know which logs might be useful, since I'm using Arch for not that long either*.
Is there any particular action you did before the system freezes?
Maybe you should also have a look at this forum post, although it's probably a different issue.
* Can one say that?
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Woah, thanks! It never occurred to me, but apparently it was an extension, I disabled all of them and the problem ended. Now I have to figure out which one was.
Edit: Nope, it was just the restart. After a while the problem started again.
Last edited by JRizzoA (2015-07-07 03:41:58)
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So there is no particular or any action?
Else I can only recommend you to read the #Troubleshooting section of the GNOME wiki-page.
I think the journal could also be of help.
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Ok, so I'm kinda dumb. It really was an extension I left it open by mistake, the sad part is that it was one of my favorites, Workspace isolated dash, if anyone wants to know.
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