Recently the Gnome desktop has developed a bad habit of entering a state where it doesn't respond to keyboard or mouse input. It happens frequently (every couple of minutes or so) and lasts for a couple of seconds, after which things work again. I initially thought that it was only the Google Chrome browser that had the problem, as videos on YouTube freeze regularly (picture only, sound continues) and the caret disappears from text input fields (as the one in Bugzilla where this is currently being entered), but many other applications are affected as well. /var/log/messages contains a large number of messages (hundreds over the past hour) like Aug 7 09:01:23 localhost gnome-session: (gnome-settings-daemon:1882): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 09:01:23 localhost gnome-session: gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 09:01:23 localhost gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 09:01:24 localhost gnome-session: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed Aug 7 09:01:24 localhost gnome-session: Gjs-Message: JS LOG: pushModal: invocation of begin_modal failed Aug 7 09:04:14 localhost gnome-session: [3273:3305:0807/090414:ERROR:raw_channel_posix.cc(139)] recvmsg: Connection reset by peer Aug 7 09:04:14 localhost gnome-session: [3273:3305:0807/090414:ERROR:channel.cc(297)] RawChannel fatal error (type 1) Aug 7 09:05:44 localhost gnome-session: [3308:3308:0807/070544:ERROR:sync_control_vsync_provider.cc(60)] glXGetSyncValuesOML should not return TRUE with a media stream counter of 0. I'd be more than happy to provide the entire log file if needed. This is Fedora 20 on x86_64, all current updates installed gnome-shell-3.10.4-7.fc20.x86_64 gnome-session-3.10.1-1.fc20.x86_64 The hardware is an Ivy Bridge based laptop with an i7-3612QM using the built-in Intel HD graphics 4000.
I was just unable to unlock the screen lock - I could switch to a text console, but no go with the GUI. /var/log/messages was rapidly accumulating messages like the ones in my previous comment: Aug 7 13:43:57 localhost gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:43:59 localhost gnome-session: gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:43:59 localhost gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:44:01 localhost gnome-session: gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:44:01 localhost gnome-session[1689]: GnomeDesktop-WARNING: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:44:02 localhost gnome-session: (gnome-settings-daemon:1882): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:44:02 localhost gnome-session: (gnome-settings-daemon:1882): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:44:02 localhost gnome-session: (gnome-settings-daemon:1882): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached Aug 7 13:44:02 localhost gnome-session: (gnome-settings-daemon:1882): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: Failed to acquire idle monitor proxy: Timeout was reached
Hmm, similar symptoms to Bug 812624 but different log messages.
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