Bug#728280: gnome-shell: Random lockups/freezes

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

On 30/10/13 09:09, Adnan Hodzic wrote:
> Package: gnome-shell
> Version: 3.8.4-4
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Since I moved to GNOME 3.8.x, I have random lockups/freezes and I really can't
> see any pattern which will lead to this situation.
> 
> This happens on both this machine (Jessie with GNOME 3.8.x from Sid), and my
> home machine which is running pure Sid. Once it freezes, I can't restart the X
> session, all I can do is run Ctrl + Alt + F1 and restart the whole computer.

Sounds like the GC bug. I'm seeing this two every now and then. A planned update
to mozjs might solve this.

> Please inform me if you need any additional input from me, or have any other
> comments or questions.

As a workaround, from a tty (after doing ctrl+alt+f1) run `killall -9
gnome-shell', then go back to gnome-shell. It should restart in a few seconds
and work again, with all your windows untouched.

Emilio