Re: [opensuse-kde] Partial screen lockups occurring on my laptop
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }Hi Marc. Well to make that short. Yes it would be good. I wanted to write a report the other day but since I had "nothing in my hands" I rather wanted to avoid to be considered "paranoid" or "unqualified" and to see it closed as invalid in 5 seconds (happened all before ;-) ). At my desk I had as well data-loss now. While doing a cut and paste operation from an SD card during one of the now frequent lockouts, the photos went into the nirvana. What I was able to check out, the activity indicator of the bar shows "ghost activities" with 0 kb/s for different applications like kaffeine or dolphine with a turning activity wheel. However there is no transfer going on. These stay until you log out / in again. Animated bars block and are unusable and it seems also that windows do partially respond. They can be moved normally but you cannot close them on the edge with a cross, but you can close them through the menu bar. If you have a multiple user system the "console user" - the first that was opened - will be touched too, even if you did not work on it. Only complete logout and login of concerned users will bring the system back to normal. It proves to be note-worthily fast then, but only for a few minutes. Than it slows down progressively, apparently in relation with the use of programs. I had a few segfaults of nepomuk in the logs. This may be everything, but it is NOT an Nvidia bug, as I do not have any such hardware. And it is getting quite mutilating. Let me know the bug number, and thank you for your effort. Cheers. In data martedì 12 novembre 2013 15:54:34, Marc Chamberlin ha scritto:
On 11/08/2013 06:37 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
I have an ASUS G75V series laptop, running openSUSE 12.3 (x86_64) with KDE Platform Version 4.10.5 "release 1" and I am getting a somewhat weird screen lockup that occurs at a random moment in time. What happens is that any window that is open and active on my desktop remains useable, but nothing else works. I cannot access ANYTHING in the kicker bar at the bottom of the screen nor can I access any of the background context menus or plasmoid menus.
If I happen to have a shell window open when this "crash" occurs, I can do an rcxdm restart which will restore functionality after logging me out an back in of course. Otherwise I am forced to press the power button on my laptop to bring up the menu that allows me to log out, restart, or shutdown my laptop from which I can also recover. But it is annoying to lose work in progress or have to restart applications that I had running whenever these crashes occur.
I scanned through log files and don't find anything significant or repetitive, but then again I have untrained eyes so take that with a grain of salt. The only other anomaly that I am seeing is a crash report occasionally about KDE plasma. I have reported it only to told it is a duplicate of another bug report- bug 325076 which appears to be a problem with the nVidia drivers. It seems unlikely that this problem I am seeing is related to some kind of nVidia driver issue, but perhaps it is?
Anywise, how can I track down the source of this problem, fix it, or should I simply bug report it?
Marc....
Well, I have let this ride for a few days without getting any response that provides a solution. Since a couple of other guys have also reported seeing the same problem, shall I report it as a bug if there are no further thoughts?
Marc....
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Thanks Stakanov for the feedback and suggestion. I searched the KDE bugs and I think this problem has already been reported. My guess is that it is Bug 325265 This bug report had a suggestion to turn off gestures and like the reporter of this particular bug report, I found I only have gestures for Konqueror. I have turned them off and so far I have not experience this problem again. But then again I have not been using my laptop a lot these past couple of days either. I am not exactly sure how to proceed, but I wanted to report back to the newsgroup here so you did not think I was dropping the ball on this issue. The bug report also wants to see if this is a problem occurring on other desktops, but that is not something I can help out with. Please advise on what I should do next. Marc.... Marc...On 11/12/2013 11:06 PM, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }Hi Marc. Well to make that short. Yes it would be good. I wanted to write a report the other day but since I had "nothing in my hands" I rather wanted to avoid to be considered "paranoid" or "unqualified" and to see it closed as invalid in 5 seconds (happened all before ;-) ). At my desk I had as well data-loss now. While doing a cut and paste operation from an SD card during one of the now frequent lockouts, the photos went into the nirvana. What I was able to check out, the activity indicator of the bar shows "ghost activities" with 0 kb/s for different applications like kaffeine or dolphine with a turning activity wheel. However there is no transfer going on. These stay until you log out / in again. Animated bars block and are unusable and it seems also that windows do partially respond. They can be moved normally but you cannot close them on the edge with a cross, but you can close them through the menu bar.
If you have a multiple user system the "console user" - the first that was opened - will be touched too, even if you did not work on it. Only complete logout and login of concerned users will bring the system back to normal. It proves to be note-worthily fast then, but only for a few minutes. Than it slows down progressively, apparently in relation with the use of programs.
I had a few segfaults of nepomuk in the logs.
This may be everything, but it is NOT an Nvidia bug, as I do not have any such hardware. And it is getting quite mutilating.
Let me know the bug number, and thank you for your effort. Cheers.
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Turning off the gestures for Konqueror does not fix this screen lockup problem. I have them turned off and my screen just froze up on me. I will report this as additional information on Bug 325265. Marc.. On 11/14/2013 02:08 PM, Marc Chamberlin wrote:
Thanks Stakanov for the feedback and suggestion. I searched the KDE bugs and I think this problem has already been reported. My guess is that it is Bug 325265 This bug report had a suggestion to turn off gestures and like the reporter of this particular bug report, I found I only have gestures for Konqueror. I have turned them off and so far I have not experience this problem again. But then again I have not been using my laptop a lot these past couple of days either. I am not exactly sure how to proceed, but I wanted to report back to the newsgroup here so you did not think I was dropping the ball on this issue. The bug report also wants to see if this is a problem occurring on other desktops, but that is not something I can help out with. Please advise on what I should do next.
Marc....
Marc...On 11/12/2013 11:06 PM, stakanov@freenet.de wrote:
p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }Hi Marc. Well to make that short. Yes it would be good. I wanted to write a report the other day but since I had "nothing in my hands" I rather wanted to avoid to be considered "paranoid" or "unqualified" and to see it closed as invalid in 5 seconds (happened all before ;-) ). At my desk I had as well data-loss now. While doing a cut and paste operation from an SD card during one of the now frequent lockouts, the photos went into the nirvana. What I was able to check out, the activity indicator of the bar shows "ghost activities" with 0 kb/s for different applications like kaffeine or dolphine with a turning activity wheel. However there is no transfer going on. These stay until you log out / in again. Animated bars block and are unusable and it seems also that windows do partially respond. They can be moved normally but you cannot close them on the edge with a cross, but you can close them through the menu bar.
If you have a multiple user system the "console user" - the first that was opened - will be touched too, even if you did not work on it. Only complete logout and login of concerned users will bring the system back to normal. It proves to be note-worthily fast then, but only for a few minutes. Than it slows down progressively, apparently in relation with the use of programs.
I had a few segfaults of nepomuk in the logs.
This may be everything, but it is NOT an Nvidia bug, as I do not have any such hardware. And it is getting quite mutilating.
Let me know the bug number, and thank you for your effort. Cheers.
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