Re: Gnome locks frequently

[Lauris Kaplinski <lauris ximian com>]

Hello!

Technically it is not gnome problem, as no X app whatever should not
be able to lock neither linux/unix system nor X server. So there is
some bug at lower level - but quite possibly it is trigerred by some
gnome app.
I have had similar problems myself, and 2 most obvious suspects are
not-too-good soundcard driver and X server.

- In first case you may want to disable esound server from running
  (try settings->sound)
- In latter case it may help to set screensaver to some simple mode
  (blank screen is always good bet, OpenGL screensavers are worst).

I have also had XFree 4 S3Savage driver to hang by using either 
StarOffice or OpenOffice suite apps. Disabling hardware acceleration
helped to solve that (this is always thing to try on mysterious
hardware lockups).
And then there is possibility of hardware problem - as gnome libs/apps
are quite memory hungry, and torture video card more than console ones,
they may just trigger some glitch in PCI/memory/... subsystem, that
does work almost reliably under console/plain X.

Best wishes,
Lauris Kaplinski


On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 00:53, Art Ross wrote:
> I've put up with this problem for awhile.  What happens if Gnome will
> lockup on me for no apparent reason.  The only way out of this situation
> is to cylce the power on the PC case.
> 
> For awhile I thought that I could avoid the problem by logging in
> starting Gnome.  This seemed to lower the frequency of the lockups so I
> ignored the issue.
> 
> Well, I've finally become frustrated enough to seek help.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
>   Art
> 
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