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

[Adnan Hodzic]

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

Looking forward to this one.

> 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.

This workaround partly worked in my case (on a dual display setup), as one
display was intact by the changes while the other display gave the
"Error occurred please log out" message.


On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort
<pochu at debian.org>wrote:

> 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
>
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