Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi Norbert,
Josselin Mouette wrote (20 Dec 2011 09:59:57 GMT) : > Le mardi 20 décembre 2011 à 17:33 +0900, Norbert Preining a écrit : >> Doing some long running task (converting images to smaller size, >> several thousands), suddenly everything stopped. I killed phatch >> (the converter program) and went into activities to restart it. >> Alas, going there, typing "phat" it showed up, so I clicked onto >> it and that was the end. gnome-shell did not react to *anything* >> anymore. No kbd, no mouse, nothing. I could still switch >> between console and X, I could still use the console without >> any problem, but gnome-shell decided to go into solipsistic mode >> and didn't interact with anyone. >> >> I tried from the console to send gnome-shell some signals to wake >> up, but also these were rejected. When I killed the gnome shell >> with kill -9, it restarted for a short time, but stopped again. > If this happens again, please try to obtain a backtrace from the > locked-up gnome-shell process. I’m not sure it’s enough because the > deadlock could be in the JS code, but that would be a good start. This bug is now almost 4 years old. Can you still reproduce it on current Debian? Cheers, -- intrigeri
