2013/3/15 Francisco Ares <fra...@gmail.com> > Hello. > > During some months now, this machine was (and still is, sometimes) > suffering from a strange progressive lock down. It always has begun with > the web browser, passing to the whole X environment, and finally I could > not even use a console. > > After several trial and error actions, as no log entry could give any hint > on what is going on, it seems that I found something consistent. > > This machine is a dual-boot Linux/Windows, as my wife once in a while > needs to work on a Windows O.S. . The lock down starts when she saves a > file received by e-mail in a ntfs-3g mounted partition, so that file would > also be accessible whenever she uses Windows. > > The reason why I suspect of ntfs-3g is that when the lock down starts, > that is, if only the web browser locks, just unmounting (and mounting back > later) that partition, recovers the web browser functionality. Sometimes, > when the lock down has already affected the whole graphic environment, but > I still may use a console, again unmounting that same partition also > unlocks everithing. > > I have already tried to emerge ntfs-3g with different use flags, but the > problem persists. Even built a new kernel and re-emerged ntfs-3g after > that. Now ntfs-3g package is using its own "fuse". > > I would really appreciate any hints on what to do or where to look for any > more information on this subject. Perhaps I am still looking at an effect, > and not the cause. > > Thanks > Francisco > > -- > "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you > and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have > one idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas." > - George Bernard Shaw
Have you had a look at dmesg after lock / unlock? driver oriented problems should show up here -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Randolph Maaßen
