Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-12-03 Thread Mark F
I wanted to post back here with an update (after I posted the straces to the bug report[1] for PCManFM and GIMP 2.10.8 crashing). User @Janos (msg #54) said GIMP 2.8.x was crashing for him (it was fine for me the whole time PCManFM was crashing in the previous version of Lubuntu, which I strongly

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-30 Thread Mark F
On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 7:47 AM Nio Wiklund wrote: > You can try the Ubuntu pastebin, > > https://paste.ubuntu.com/ I tried but the "paste!" (submit) button timed out, ended in 502 gateway error. I think the pasted content (60meg?) was too much. I posted a message to launchpad (the bug report

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-30 Thread Nio Wiklund
Den 2018-11-29 kl. 23:21, skrev Mark F: After I posted that last update, I was thinking how GIMP hasn't crashed since I started stracing pcmanfm. It would previously crash *a lot*. Much more frequently than the typical *days* between pcmanfm crashes. That seemed to confirm my suggestive mind

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-29 Thread Mark F
After I posted that last update, I was thinking how GIMP hasn't crashed since I started stracing pcmanfm. It would previously crash *a lot*. Much more frequently than the typical *days* between pcmanfm crashes. That seemed to confirm my suggestive mind that strace is throttling things and

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-29 Thread Mark F
> > Now, It's just a matter of time till I have some strace info. I'll post to > the bug report when I have something. > I just wanted to send an update: no pcmanfm crashes (nor GIMP) since running strace (as described in the previous post). I'm starting to think strace's overhead is causing

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-26 Thread Mark F
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:12 PM Walter Lapchynski wrote: > > I didn't think this is related because GIMP had a major upgrade. But, > GIMP > > became very unstable for me (similar random freezing; kill it, start > > again). > > Could be related if say it's somehow a GTK issue. Is this only in

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 05:49:41PM -0700, Mark F wrote: > I've always felt like it has something to do with mouse clicks not being > handled well (clicking too fast). But, that could just be my imagination, > looking for a simple reason. Well there's only one way to find out. If it's a matter of

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Mark F
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 4:28 PM Walter Lapchynski wrote: > ... if you could add to the discussion in some way, > maybe put your heads together with the 7 other folks that claim to have > the same issue, that might be useful: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcmanfm/+bug/1782984 > >

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Walter Lapchynski
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 10:50:10AM -0700, Mark F wrote: > Ever since I upgraded to LTS 18.04, PCmanfm crashes every 3-4 days > (sometimes more than once a day. Sometimes it takes two weeks.).[1] I have not had the experience you have had, nor have many others, but there are some people reporting

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Ian Bruntlett
Hi Aere, On Sun, 25 Nov 2018 at 19:41, Aere Greenway wrote: > I usually like to see if the removable drive is actually ejected (no > longer in the left pane), so I change PCManFM's behavior > (Edit...Preferences) so that instead of terminating any tabs viewing the > removable drive, it switches

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Aere Greenway
(sorry - I neglected to post this reply to the entire group) On 11/25/18 10:50 AM, Mark F wrote: Ever since I upgraded to LTS 18.04, PCmanfm crashes every 3-4 days (sometimes more than once a day. Sometimes it takes two weeks.).[1] I guess I was thinking it would be fixed, so I never said

Re: [lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Aere Greenway
On 11/25/18 11:57 AM, Mark F wrote: Thank you. I changed that preference setting to what you use. I don't think that's it. But, I'll give it time. It happens when I click on something in pcmanfm. It freezes. I drag the window around, any part that becomes covered will be grayed out (not

[lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

2018-11-25 Thread Mark F
Ever since I upgraded to LTS 18.04, PCmanfm crashes every 3-4 days (sometimes more than once a day. Sometimes it takes two weeks.).[1] I guess I was thinking it would be fixed, so I never said anything here. (And, I guess I became used to it after a few months.). I haven't seen anyone else