> Sounds like the GC bug. I'm seeing this two every now and then. A planned update > to mozjs might solve this.
Looking forward to this one. > As a workaround, from a tty (after doing ctrl+alt+f1) run `killall -9 > gnome-shell', then go back to gnome-shell. It should restart in a few seconds > and work again, with all your windows untouched. This workaround partly worked in my case (on a dual display setup), as one display was intact by the changes while the other display gave the "Error occurred please log out" message. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <po...@debian.org>wrote: > On 30/10/13 09:09, Adnan Hodzic wrote: > > Package: gnome-shell > > Version: 3.8.4-4 > > Severity: important > > > > Dear Maintainer, > > > > Since I moved to GNOME 3.8.x, I have random lockups/freezes and I really > can't > > see any pattern which will lead to this situation. > > > > This happens on both this machine (Jessie with GNOME 3.8.x from Sid), > and my > > home machine which is running pure Sid. Once it freezes, I can't restart > the X > > session, all I can do is run Ctrl + Alt + F1 and restart the whole > computer. > > Sounds like the GC bug. I'm seeing this two every now and then. A planned > update > to mozjs might solve this. > > > Please inform me if you need any additional input from me, or have any > other > > comments or questions. > > As a workaround, from a tty (after doing ctrl+alt+f1) run `killall -9 > gnome-shell', then go back to gnome-shell. It should restart in a few > seconds > and work again, with all your windows untouched. > > Emilio >
