https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205452 https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1205452#c22 --- Comment #22 from Fritz Hudnut <non.space.1@gmail.com> --- (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 . . . . -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Bnc-team-xfce mailing list Bnc-team-xfce@forge.provo.novell.com https://forge.provo.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/bnc-team-xfce