Gnome desktop freeze

[Steve Flynn]

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On 18/03/10 19:41, Rev. Melissa Lane wrote:
> I have 9.10 and my gnome desktop keeps freezing up on me. Can anyone
> tell me why it might be doing this? I also wanted to thank everyone who
> has been so generous to help me over the past few weeks. It is
> definitely appreciated.

Can you trace the freezing to any specific action or is it totally
random as far as you can tell.

When the desktop freezes, can you switch to another terminal
(CTRL-ALT-F1 through to F6)? If you can, log in to your normal user and
run a top (or even better htop) command and note anything which is using
a lot of CPU. Using "SortBy CPU% will be useful. F6 is SortBy.

If you can get into another terminal, having a look at the contents (and
even better, posting the last 40 lines or so on pastebin and popping a
URL here to it) of /var/log/syslog will be most useful.

If your machine really is locking up quite hard, using the sysreq keys
to attempt as clean a shutdown as possible will be useful. Information
on this, and how to perform the keystrokes in the correct order can be
found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSEIUB under the "Raising
Elephants" mnemonic device entry.




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Steve Flynn
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