Bug#829076: general: Random freezes but the mouse can still move
Package: general
Severity: grave
Justification: causes non-serious data loss
I'm running the current 64-bit Debian with the Cinnamon desktop and have been experiencing 'freezes' for about
a month now. The mouse still moves around but clicking on any window produces no response. However right-clicking
on any window (eg Firefox) brings up the context menu for the desktop!?
I run a twin-screen set-up and looking at the screens which were timed-out I noticed that the times on the two
screens were different! One was reading 11:03 and the other 11:16!
After a few minutes both screens were frozen and I had to Ctrl+Alt+F1, kill the x-session-manager which resulted
in the login screen and the system wsudo gedit /var/log/syslogas usable again..
>From this I conclude that the problem is OS-related and not driver-related (as a twin-screen set-up is configured
in the OS).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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