Re: UI Freezes in gnome shell, usually when playing video ?

[marathon durandal gmail com]

On Sat, Mar 08, 2014 at 02:55:06AM -0800, Stuart Axon wrote:
> At least once a day if I play a video, on a web page or a video player everything freezes in gnome shell, 
> after the video has played for a few seconds.
>
> The sound carries on, if I switch to another terminal and
>
> pkill -HUP gnome-shell
>
> Then switch back, everything is unfrozen and I can see the video - the whole time the sound from the video 
> never stops.
>
>
> I've reproduced the bug using  chromium and firefox to play videos remotely, vlc and totem to play videos 
> locally.
>
> On Ubuntnu 13.04

Gnome Shell 3.8.x on Debian SID no such issues, rather stable actually.