On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Barry Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: > > I did that a coupla days ago. This has been one of those "work on it for a > few minutes here and there" problems for several days. I think it still > hung even from a text console. Otherwise I would have used that as the > workaround until I figured out the actual problem. > > But for now I'm calling it the !#@$& proprietary ATI driver. I've done > several builds since I went back to the free radeon driver and no problems so > far. Grrr. > > I was really liking GNOME Shell, but I can live with XFCE. It sure seems > fast now. > > Barry
Grr. I'm still running X using the Radeon driver, XFCE as my WM, and today I started up SQuirrel SQL (a Java GUI app) and it hung loading plugins for several minutes. An Emacs (also X) hung for the whole time. That java process was eating CPU (1771%) during that time. Killing the process required a -9, but emacs started responding immediately. This is incredibly frustrating. I'm planning on a fresh install of Fedora 18 as soon as it's beta, but if anybody has any ideas what could cause java programs to hang and cause oddly selective interfernce with other programs (or occasionally just hang X), I would love to hear about it. Thanks, Barry /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
