Gnome shell freezes randomly

[Marlin]

I have been experiencing random lockups of gnome-shell ever since I did a new install of bookworm sometime in July. When I say lockup/freeze, I mean that the mouse cursor still moves on the display, but I can not click anything. The rest of the system is not frozen. I can ssh into it. Yesterday morning I found gnome frozen with the clock showing 4:21 AM. I could not find anything in the logs that correlated to that time, but it may be that I am not searching at the right spot. I was using journalctl.

Below are some commands I ran while gnome was frozen.



marlin@RRE:~$ ps -aux | grep gnome-shell

marlin@RRE:~$

marlin@RRE:~$ top
top - 07:01:32 up 2 days, 22:45,  2 users,  load average: 1.19, 1.24, 1.25
Tasks: 413 total,   1 running, 412 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie

MiB Mem :  31903.9 total,    365.4 free,  19651.1 used,  12489.9 buff/cache
MiB Swap:  38264.0 total,  37913.7 free,    350.2 used.  12252.8 avail Mem





marlin@RRE:~$ free

Swap:       39182332      358656    38823676
marlin@RRE:~$


marlin@RRE:~$ inxi -Gaz
Graphics:

      speed: 5 GT/s bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:128b class-ID: 0300

      gpu: nvidia tty: 120x30

marlin@RRE:~$

marlin@RRE:~$ uname -a

marlin@RRE:~$



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Regards,
Marlin
Pennsylvania, United States

ps shows normal system usage while top shows the cpu load at 100%. Maybe that is just one core? marlin 3289 4.8 2.9 4977044 971368 ? Ssl Nov24 207:00 /usr/bin/gnome-shell marlin 3330 0.0 0.0 581188 17496 ? Sl Nov24 0:00 /usr/libexec/gnome-shell-calendar-server marlin 3404 0.0 0.0 2850056 28740 ? Sl Nov24 0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.Shell.Notifications marlin 3587 0.0 0.0 2661648 27468 ? Sl Nov24 0:00 /usr/bin/gjs /usr/share/gnome-shell/org.gnome.ScreenSaver marlin 434729 0.0 0.0 6332 2116 pts/0 S+ 06:58 0:00 grep gnome-shell %Cpu(s): 6.3 us, 1.8 sy, 0.2 ni, 91.5 id, 0.0 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3289 marlin 20 0 4977044 971536 107480 S 100.0 3.0 209:54.08 gnome-shell total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 32669588 20130636 366032 142932 12789816 12538952 Device-1: NVIDIA GK208B [GeForce GT 710] vendor: Gigabyte driver: nvidia v: 470.199.02 non-free: series: 470.xx+ status: legacy-active (EOL~2023/24) arch: Fermi 2 code: GF119/GK208 process: TSMC 28nm built: 2010-16 pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s lanes: 8 link-max: gen: 2 Display: x11 server: X.org v: 1.21.1.7 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.9 compositor: gnome-shell v: 43.6 driver: X: loaded: nvidia unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa alternate: nv API: OpenGL Message: GL data unavailable in console and glxinfo missing. Linux RRE 6.1.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.55-1 (2023-09-29) x86_64 GNU/Linux If anyone has any suggestions, I will be glad for them. I know this kind of an issue is hard to debug because I do not know how to cause it to freeze.

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