On 2018-08-08 12:13 AM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 2018-08-07 07:13 AM, Jonathan Dowland wrote:Thanks. I'm thrilled to report that I'm back in Plasma and it is behaving itself again (so far) after doing the latest full-upgrade.On Mon, Aug 06, 2018 at 03:03:57PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote:I'm not even sure where to report this problem since I can't identify a specific package that is causing it. However since Gnome Flashback seems to be working, I'd guess that it is in the flashier desktop elements.You can report a bug against the pseudo-package "general" if you aren't sure what's at fault, but it's possibly better to ask here first, as you have, to see if people can help narrow down the problem. What graphics hardware do you have (e.g. nvidia), and have you installed any drivers from outside Debian to use it?As for non-debian drivers, I don't have any. The worst I've done is include non-free firmware for my NIC.Despite my earlier success with Gnome Flashback, it took to locking up when I tried to bring the computer back after the screen saver kicked in. Turning off the suspend mode cured that. I note that under KDE, I actually have just been locking the screen.Hopefully whatever nastiness caused me two days of pain using Gnome Flashback has been resolved.
That situation lasted until my next reboot. Now I'm back to where it was, except the Gnome Flashback seems to be having trouble when coming back from the screensaver. I'm now using xfce which uses the Xscreensaver. It's been OK for 24 hours but I've just adjusted the screen saver to turn off the monitor when it kicks in. I'll see how that pans out.
Last night's updates didn't fix the problem and I haven't seen anything in tonight's that looked hopeful.
My hardware is Ryzen 7, ASUS x-370, 16G RAM, ASUS HD-7850 video, Samsung 960 EVO M2 ssd, and various HDs in a RAID 5 array.
Everything was running great until a few days ago. When I first set up the system, I got the occasional lockup but a few UEFI updates and the latest kernels seemed to have ended that. Now the lockups are highly repeatable (e.g. starting Plasma 5).