On 2018-08-08 12:13 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2018-08-07 07:13 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:
I'm not even sure where to report this problem since I can't
identify a specific package that is causing it. However since Gnome
Flashback seems to be working, I'd guess that it is in the flashier
desktop elements.
You can report a bug against the pseudo-package "general" if you aren't
sure what's at fault, but it's possibly better to ask here first, as you
have, to see if people can help narrow down the problem.
What graphics hardware do you have (e.g. nvidia), and have you installed
any drivers from outside Debian to use it?
Thanks. I'm thrilled to report that I'm back in Plasma and it is
behaving itself again (so far) after doing the latest full-upgrade.
As for non-debian drivers, I don't have any. The worst I've done is
include non-free firmware for my NIC.
Despite my earlier success with Gnome Flashback, it took to locking up
when I tried to bring the computer back after the screen saver kicked
in. Turning off the suspend mode cured that. I note that under KDE, I
actually have just been locking the screen.
Hopefully whatever nastiness caused me two days of pain using Gnome
Flashback has been resolved.
That situation lasted until my next reboot. Now I'm back to where it
was, except the Gnome Flashback seems to be having trouble when coming
back from the screensaver. I'm now using xfce which uses the
Xscreensaver. It's been OK for 24 hours but I've just adjusted the
screen saver to turn off the monitor when it kicks in. I'll see how that
pans out.
Last night's updates didn't fix the problem and I haven't seen anything
in tonight's that looked hopeful.
My hardware is Ryzen 7, ASUS x-370, 16G RAM, ASUS HD-7850 video, Samsung
960 EVO M2 ssd, and various HDs in a RAID 5 array.
Everything was running great until a few days ago. When I first set up
the system, I got the occasional lockup but a few UEFI updates and the
latest kernels seemed to have ended that. Now the lockups are highly
repeatable (e.g. starting Plasma 5).