(In reply to Stefan Seyfried from comment #21) > Things I have seen in the past: > Updates of font packages cause the X server to basically stall for quite > some time, especially (this is a guess) on older/slower CPUs and graphics > adapters. > > This lead to display "hangs" of about a minute without content updates, > don't remember if the mouse pointer still moved. A text console login > showed, that the xorg processes were consuming lots of CPU. > AFAIR the update process continued in the background, it was just no > progress visible on the desktop. > > > So especially if this is an "older" machine where this happens, just waiting > longer for it to finish would be my first option. > In order to debug this, I would have a ready-logged-in text console handy > and in case the GUI hangs would check if the last installed packages (should > be visible in journal or with "rpm -qa --last|head" are font packages indeed. > > I'm not sure who is "to blame" for this issue, if it is the X server > dynamically reloading the changed fonts or the graphics toolkits, but that's > a secondary question, once you find out it is actually the same problem I > was seeing. @maurizio: OK, well, this is Leap 15.5 XFCE, whether the XFCE is relevant or not is another story . . . . I have several rolling tumbleweed based systems and no issues there on the same machine . . . . '12 cMP i7 4core @stefan s: Yes, in the long history of using XFCE, back to approx '07 or earlier, there has been issues of GUI "freezing" . . . in PPC based systems, etc. This is longer than 1 minute AND can not get to a TTY from with the freeze . . . .