Right Marius, as soon it freezes again I'll perform your suggestions. 1) Check dmseg 2) Check if gnome-shell pid changes on kill 3) Check if killing gnome-session unfreeze tty7.
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Marius Gedminas <mar...@gedmin.as> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 07:38:00PM -0200, Felipe de Andrade Neves Lavratti > wrote: > > I am running the Gnome Trusty Thar and the Gnome interface frequently > > freezes. I can access the other tty consoles through the keyboard > shortcut > > but I couldn't find the process that freezes. Tried to kill gnome-shell > but > > the tty7 doesn't unfreeze. > > > > How can I diagnose it? > > The part about tty7 not unfreezing when you kill gnome-shell makes me > suspect the video driver. A GPU hang, perhaps? Unfortunately I've > little clue how to diagnose those. > > Do you see anything interesting in dmesg? In /var/log/Xorg.0.log? > > Does gnome-shell actually die when you kill it? It's possible > gnome-session -- or upstart nowadays -- restarts a new instance of > gnome-shell when it sees the old one died, so check if the PID changes > or if the process goes away entirely. > > Marius Gedminas > -- > TCP_UP - The 16-bit TCP Urgent Pointer, encoded as the hex > representation of the value of the field. The hex string MUST be > capitalized since it is urgent. > -- RFC 3093 > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa > Post to : ubuntugnome-qa@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntugnome-qa > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- Skype: felipeanl
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