Inkscape (and others) make debian freeze
Um, I'm not sure it's the right place to ask this, but ...
Inkscape regularly makes debian freeze : It slows down, then becomes
nonresponsive and then, after a *long* wait (20 minutes ?), it closes
inkscape, and all's abck to normal. When it's frozen, Gnome refreshes
very slowly (if at all, often it's all black), and even the terminal is
slow - too slow for me to log in, it times out before asking for my
password. Often, all I can do is physically reboot the machine, which
is ungood.
What I've been doing is a) avoiding inkscape and b) when i use
inkscape, have a root terminal already open. If anything shows sign of
slowing down, I immediatly switch to it and "killall inkscape". That
works, but isn't very elegant.
I used to get this problem with mozilla and firefox (now that I don't
use that machine for the web anymore, I don't know if it happens) -
exactly the same symptoms, so the problem isn't in inkscape. I don't
think I had it with any other programs.
Um, I have Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (I get mostly "testing" from the
repository - is that a good idea ?), gnome 2.8.3 ...
I googled a bit but didn't find anything too similar (but them, I'm not
sure what to google for)
I would be grateful for any help or information ! This is a pain in the
neck :-P
Emile
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