Bug#651899: gnome-shell: freezes when switching workspaces

Antonio Terceiro terceiro at debian.org
Mon Dec 12 23:15:59 UTC 2011


Package: gnome-shell
Version: 3.0.2-8+b1
Severity: important

Hi,

gnome-shell sometimes freezes when I am switching workspaces, The mouse
still moves, but the UI does not respond at all. It seems like the click
events are still passing through the windows, but I cannot interact
with them or view them being updated:

* one time after I restarted my session, chromium had a list of tabs
  opened by my clicks on thumbnails in the start page, even though
  when I clicked I did not see any action in the chromium window

* another time I had mutt open in a gnome-terminal window, I killed it
  with from a VT console, but mutt was still visible in the window.

I tried debugging gnome-shell as documented in
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Debugging, but gnome-shell does not
crash, it only freezes; I do not get a prompt at gdb after I reproduce
the problem within the GNOME session.

I also tried to install gnome-shell from experimental but couldn't
because a missing dependency:

  gnome-shell : Depends: libedataserverui-3.0-1 (>= 3.2.1) but it is not going to be installed

My video card:

$ lspci -v  | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])

The only difference between my box and a up to date sid box are the following
packages, being held back on their versions in wheezy because of #651316:

  libdrm-dev libdrm-intel1 libdrm-nouveau1a libdrm-radeon1 libdrm2 libkms1

Please let me know how I can provide more useful info regarding this
problem.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.0.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-shell depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.10.0-3
ii  gconf2                                       3.2.3-1
ii  gir1.2-atk-1.0                               2.2.0-2
ii  gir1.2-clutter-1.0                           1.8.2-2
ii  gir1.2-cogl-1.0                              1.8.2-1
ii  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0                         1.8.2-1
ii  gir1.2-freedesktop                           1.31.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gconf-2.0                             3.2.3-1
ii  gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0                         2.24.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gkbd-3.0                              3.2.0-1
ii  gir1.2-glib-2.0                              1.31.0-2
ii  gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0                    3.2.1-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0                               3.2.2-3
ii  gir1.2-json-1.0                              0.14.2-1
ii  gir1.2-mutter-3.0                            3.2.1-2
ii  gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0                    0.9.2.0-1
ii  gir1.2-pango-1.0                             1.29.4-2
ii  gir1.2-polkit-1.0                            0.103-1
ii  gir1.2-telepathyglib-0.12                    0.16.2-1
ii  gir1.2-telepathylogger-0.2                   0.2.10-2
ii  gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0                        0.9.15-1
ii  gjs                                          1.30.0-2
ii  gnome-bluetooth                              3.2.1-1
ii  gnome-icon-theme-symbolic                    3.2.1-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon                        3.0.3-3+b1
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.2.0-2
ii  libatk1.0-0                                  2.2.0-2
ii  libc6                                        2.13-22
ii  libcairo-gobject2                            1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcairo2                                    1.10.2-6.1
ii  libcamel-1.2-23                              3.0.3-2
ii  libcanberra0                                 0.28-3
ii  libclutter-1.0-0                             1.8.2-2
ii  libcogl-pango0                               1.8.2-1
ii  libcogl5                                     1.8.2-1
ii  libcroco3                                    0.6.2-2
ii  libdbus-1-3                                  1.4.16-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2                             0.98-1
ii  libdrm2                                      <none>
ii  libebook1.2-10                               3.0.3-2
ii  libecal1.2-8                                 3.0.3-2
ii  libedataserver1.2-14                         3.0.3-2
ii  libedataserverui-3.0-0                       3.0.3-2
ii  libffi5                                      3.0.10-3
ii  libfontconfig1                               2.8.0-3
ii  libfreetype6                                 2.4.8-1
ii  libgconf2-4                                  3.2.3-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0                           2.24.0-1
ii  libgirepository-1.0-1                        1.31.0-2
ii  libgjs0b [libgjs0-libmozjs8d]                1.30.0-2
ii  libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1]                     7.11.2-1
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.30.2-4
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-2                         3.2.1-3
ii  libgnome-menu2                               3.0.1-4
ii  libgstreamer0.10-0                           0.10.35-1
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.2.2-3
ii  libical0                                     0.44-3
ii  libjson-glib-1.0-0                           0.14.2-1
ii  libmozjs8d                                   8.0-3+b1
ii  libmutter0                                   3.2.1-2
ii  libnspr4-0d                                  4.8.9-1
ii  libnss3-1d                                   3.13.1.with.ckbi.1.88-1
ii  libpango1.0-0                                1.29.4-2
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0                          0.103-1
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0                        0.103-1
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0                      1.1-2
ii  libpulse0                                    1.1-2
ii  libsoup2.4-1                                 2.36.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0                                 3.7.9-2
ii  libstartup-notification0                     0.12-1
ii  libtelepathy-glib0                           0.16.2-1
ii  libtelepathy-logger2                         0.2.10-2
ii  libx11-6                                     2:1.4.4-4
ii  libxcomposite1                               1:0.4.3-2
ii  libxdamage1                                  1:1.1.3-2
ii  libxext6                                     2:1.3.0-3
ii  libxfixes3                                   1:5.0-4
ii  libxi6                                       2:1.4.3-3
ii  libxml2                                      2.7.8.dfsg-5
ii  python                                       2.7.2-9

Versions of packages gnome-shell recommends:
ii  gnome-control-center   1:3.0.2-3+b1
ii  gnome-themes-standard  3.2.1-2

gnome-shell suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

-- 
Antonio Terceiro <terceiro at debian.org>
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