[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1453812] Re: System freeze when using LibreOffice Writer

2016-11-13 Thread trailingedge
I want to modify the above comment, as I just had similar misbehavior from my Ubuntu install running a different app, Synaptics. System froze after a few minutes use of Synaptics (running Ubuntu 16.04): "the only possible action is moving the mouse pointer on the screen. Impossible to connect to a

[Kernel-packages] [Bug 1453812] Re: System freeze when using LibreOffice Writer

2016-11-13 Thread trailingedge
Same problem running Ubuntu 16.04 on legacy machine, with nouveau-drivers for NVidia graphic chipset on HP laptop. LibreOffice Writer freezes (running version 5.1): "The only possible action is moving the mouse pointer on the screen. Impossible to connect to a tty session to kill Xorg." I did