Created attachment 571289 [details] gdb trace of the hung state As per summary: sometimes when I enter or leave the overview, I think only when doing it with the mouse (so it may relate to the ripple effect), Shell hangs hard - cannot interact with desktop at all. Only way to recover is to ctrl-alt-f2 and kill -9 it (regular kill does not work). Using gnome-shell-3.3.90-2.fc17.x86_64 , graphics card is a GeForce 9600 GT, using nouveau. Others have reported the same / similar bug on test list, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2012-March/106162.html . Attaching a gdb trace from the hung state.
Created attachment 571416 [details] gnome-shell backtrace
Have got the same issue, but in my case it doesn't seem to be limited to overview. Happend to me at least twice today. Last time I remember it happened when I was scrolling in some excell sheet in libreoffice - so something not directly related to gnome-shell. Only way out is console, killall -9 gnome-shell. The gnome-shell then restarts and the session continues on. gnome-shell-3.3.90-2.fc17.x86_64 graphic card - Integrated Graphics Chipset: Intel(R) GM45 Best regards Michal Ambroz
When this happens, grab a copy of ~/.xsession-errors too before you kill the shell and attach, if you can.
Created attachment 571560 [details] gnome-shell backtrace2 This time it was clicking the print button in quanta. Current action doesn't seem to be related.
Sorry Dan, read your request too late. I will grab .xsession-errors next time.
Created attachment 571775 [details] .xsession-errors a few seconds after hitting the bug So I just hit this again. I quickly switched to a VT and grabbed .xsession-errors. Unfortunately, as it's not timestamped, I've no idea which, if any, of the messages coincide with the hang :/ Here it is.
Here is my log. I just killed gnome-shell again. The ---mark--- shows where it happened. The two lines afterwards are just from trying to enter the graphical mode again before killing the gnome-shell. Hard to say whether any of the lines are directly related to the hangup.
Created attachment 571891 [details] .xsession-errors .xsession-errors for last couple of hours ending with killing of the gnome-shell with killall -HUP gnome-shell.
Created attachment 572356 [details] .xsession-errors.20120323 I have put some timestamping to crontab. Attached is xsession-errors from the last gnome-shell rampage, this time this is errorlog only from last 30 minutes. I believe that in my case it is some memory leakage of the gnome-shell. This time I was lucky to see window with top running, when it was happening. The virtual memory of gnome-shell is with me normally cca around 1600M VIRT and the resident cca 120M RES. During few minutes RES went up first to cca 280. The system started being sluggish at that point and as it probably hit the point, where it needed to do some swapping. Then the growing of the process speed up and reached 3 500M VIRT, 640M RES withing minute. At that point the shell totally frezzed up. It was probably at the point where almost whole physical memory was taken by the RES size of all programs. Still the mouse was moving and changing its shape according to application bellow, but it was not possible to click applications or switch the focus. This time i didn't kill the gnome-shell, but some other applications to free some memory. After that gnome-shell was responsive for couple of seconds so it was most probably only waiting to allocate more memory. It grew up to 900M RES where it (and whole gnomes session) stopped to be responsive at all and I had to kill it. At that time 2GB of physical and 2GB (out of 4GB) were taken on the swap all together. Best regards Michal
*** Bug 806006 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Could this be related to: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677442 We have stumbled up on this problem with when exchange is configured in a corporate environment.
Could this be related to: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=677442 We have stumbled up on this problem with when a exchange account is configured properly in evolution in a corporate environment.
Just ran into this with gnome-shell-3.4.2, screen froze, transition effect is partly visible on bottom edge. I have another machine running 3.6 for a while now and there has been no such freezes.
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