Bug#455567: base: GNOME dies, needs a restart

[Julien Cristau]

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kthxbye

Hi,

2 years ago you were having issues with gdm:

On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 22:45:21 +0200, Winterfeldt wrote:

> Hello, and sorry for replying before, but have been away from my computer
> 
> Well, it is not very easy to find some pattern in the behaviour, but
> it seams that if the system has been on for some hours, it sometimes
> stops. Here comes some more details:
> - Usually, when one tries to log on, there is no reply. In those
> cases, the system can be reached by VNC, but is then very slow.
> Sometimed it helps to restart gdm (/etc/init.d/gdm restart), but
> usually not. However, it may take over an hour to do this. It may be
> possible to shut down the system with the init 0 command, but usally
> that does not work either.
> 
> - The system may respond to Ctrl+AltF1, but you can not log on.
> There is a slightly larger possibility to log on to Ctrl+Alt+F2, but
> it is the same as with VNC, you can not do anything.
> 
Can you still reproduce this issue today?  If so, can you attach your
Xorg log and dmesg after reproducing it?  Also try to see if any process
is pegging the cpu, using ps or top.

Cheers,
Julien