Gnome-shell freeze
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gnome-shell (Gentoo Linux) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
gnome-shell (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I was just using the desktop in a regular way (a few Evince PDFs and Chromium windows open only - with Flash disabled on all tabs if I recall correctly). Then gnome-shell seemed to freeze.
No keyboard shortcuts or mouse clicks had any effect (although the mouse pointer was moving, and CTRL+ALT+F1 was able to recover the session by killing and restarting gnome-shell on DISPLAY=:0
This suggests to me that there was no issue with X or with any of my programs (which are still running and interactive as they were before the freeze).
This apport was gathered with gnome-shell from TTY1 with DISPLAY=:0 on TTY7 still within its freeze state, and before the shell kill and replace.
Incidentally I have to run...
xhost +local:root
...to be able to sudo any GTK programs to DISPLAY=:0 after a gnome-shell --restart otherwise they segfault (e.g. ubuntu-bug segfaults). Next time I'll remember to do this before running apport, as this bug may have corrupted or limited the information gathered.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.8.4-0ubuntu1
Uname: Linux 3.11.0-
ApportVersion: 2.12.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Aug 29 12:00:08 2013
DisplayManager: gdm
GsettingsChanges:
b'org.
b'org.
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-08-15 (13 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Alpha i386 (20130626)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
TERM=linux
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.