Rommie wrote:@hardyheron
In the meantime yes I admit the hp could be a red herring, however there is this which is common to all of the freeze times what is this?

Some client complain that the X11 server doesn't respond. This usually happens because
a) the X11 server crashed
b) the client crashed in a different thread (the message is then a red herring like "ooop, I crashed and now stunningly don't work anymore")
c) the X11 server is stalled (locked in some position) or SIGSTOP'd

luebking wrote:

Rommie wrote:@hardyheron
In the meantime yes I admit the hp could be a red herring, however there is this which is common to all of the freeze times what is this?

Some client complain that the X11 server doesn't respond. This usually happens because
a) the X11 server crashed
b) the client crashed in a different thread (the message is then a red herring like "ooop, I crashed and now stunningly don't work anymore")
c) the X11 server is stalled (locked in some position) or SIGSTOP'd

This has made me curious especially since I took out the systray and now I have no problems. Could the systray itself be the cause? Or perhaps a process related to the systray?

If you believe it to be related to the systray, try to install an fdo style systray like stalonetray (plasmashell does no longer provide an fdo compliant tray, so the client might fail to find a server for its icon and do "stupid" things in return)

Some "regular" bug in that area could probably stall plasmashell (the desktop and panel) but not kill everything. (It's hard to say what could be the problem there w/o inspecting the troubled system)

Same problem.

Solved.

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$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="openSUSE Leap"
VERSION="42.1"
VERSION_ID="42.1"
PRETTY_NAME="openSUSE Leap 42.1 (x86_64)"
ID=opensuse
ANSI_COLOR="0;32"
CPE_NAME="cpe:/o:opensuse:opensuse:42.1"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.opensuse.org"
HOME_URL="https://opensuse.org/"
ID_LIKE="suse"

$ lspci | grep VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GT216M [GeForce GT 330M] (rev a2)


Download driver from: http://www.geforce.com/drivers

Start NVIDIA installer.

If you got error because nouveau drivers, you will be asked for try disable it. Basically, will add nouveau to blacklist.

Then run:

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$ mkinitrd

Make sure you have installed this two packages: gcc and kernel-devel.

Reboot the system, for disable nouveau.

Run the NVIDIA installer again.

That's it.

I hace a clean install of Leap 42.1, KDE 5.5.5 on an Asus Zenbook ux305ca. OVer the past few days it was hanging 5 to 6 times a day.

I added the "nomodeset" in the Yast2 Bootloader and it has been over 24 hours, not one hang.

"Optional Kernel Command Line Parameters"

resume=/dev/disk/by-uuid/a49560f9-5133-45ca-b895-b3fb6dcd1b49 splash=silent quiet showopts nomodeset

My VIdeo card is an Intel HD 515

Life is good once again

What version of the xf86-video-intel driver is that? I've had freezes myself with nothing to be found in logs, until I dropped it back to 2.99.917.

I just installed Leap 42.1. Came up but froze as soon as I did a mouse click. After several reboots to verify it was a fairly solid problem I tried this solution.

Boot up Leap 42.1
first thing, do a control alt F2 to get a command line login.
log in as root
open up yast , (just type yast on the command line and hit enter)

you will have to maneuver within yast via tab key, arrow keys,
and enter key as the mouse is not used.

go to repository screen and choose the community repository option
add the nvidia repository
install the latest nvidia drivers for my card
do a shutdown -r now
I had to manually power down the pc though, as the screen hung
after reboot, it came up, and no freezes .

For people with other video cards, radion, Intel, etc. you would need to find out how to either
add a repository or driver for their video card from the command line login.

Hope this helps someone.

dpz

In my case, all the windows still work but the desktop doesn't. Does this match with the rest of you?

Right now I'm using firefox to post this. It's fully functional. As is my terminal window, Konqueror and system monitor. But I can't launch anything from either the 'start menu', tray or desktop. Also can't raise a window that's been minimalized to the tray.

Is this what the rest of you are seeing?

a little late perhaps but for those on intel graphics (post for UX305CA specifically) [im on tumbleweed] I got regular freezes using chrome. This occurred when inserting /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-intel.conf (investigating seperate issue) which only specified intel with no other options. investigation of /var/Xorg.0.log showed differences from the default setup when specifying intel via conf file.

craigsparks wrote:In my case, all the windows still work but the desktop doesn't. Does this match with the rest of you?

Right now I'm using firefox to post this. It's fully functional. As is my terminal window, Konqueror and system monitor. But I can't launch anything from either the 'start menu', tray or desktop. Also can't raise a window that's been minimalized to the tray.

Is this what the rest of you are seeing?

I have the same problem, taskbar frozen.

I disable tooltip for taskbar, it's make this freezing lest common

Fedora25
kf5-plasma.x86_64 5.27.0-1.fc25

so this is a pretty longstanding issue huh?

i just did a clean install, i'll have to see if it still exists, but it seemed like it might have been some conflict created when i installed LXQT, but not 100% on that, will find out soon though.

Debian Stretch weekly snapshot, using open source radeon drivers in the 'non-free' repo.

hmm.. well, just thought about this. "firmware-linux-nonfree" which is required for my hardware.. If People were saying its actually related to the graphics driver that would make sense. it seems to work fine before adding the aforementioned package, but the laptop was also unusable with said package.

xsor wrote:

craigsparks wrote:In my case, all the windows still work but the desktop doesn't. Does this match with the rest of you?

Right now I'm using firefox to post this. It's fully functional. As is my terminal window, Konqueror and system monitor. But I can't launch anything from either the 'start menu', tray or desktop. Also can't raise a window that's been minimalized to the tray.

Is this what the rest of you are seeing?

I have the same problem, taskbar frozen.

I disable tooltip for taskbar, it's make this freezing lest common

Fedora25
kf5-plasma.x86_64 5.27.0-1.fc25

NOT FIXED with latest update on my fedora
kf5-plasma.x86_64 5.29.0-1.fc25

back to xfce

Hi,

i, too, can confirm that it keeps freezing times to times.

Linux mustadio 4.9.0-2-default #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Dec 16 19:51:27 UTC 2016 (6fbc0c0) x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

opensuse tumbleweed updated and installed yesterday. nvidia/nouveu.