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    From Jim Beard@2:250/1 to All on Tue Jan 14 18:17:50 2020
    Problems I wrote about in late December with my desktop freezing for
    kernels later than 5.3.11 are continuing with the new kernel 5.4.10
    installed last night.

    The rcs0 hang and possible involvment of gtk2 (or 3) and maybe gfx were
    my suspects earlier, and remain so.

    Kernel 5.3.11 continues to work fine, with 5.3.13, 5.4.2, and 5.4.6
    remaining flaky and freezing.

    I will continue to use 5.3.11 in hope future updates will clear the
    problem (assuming it is in the updates, and not just in my configuration
    or hardware), but will ask again if anyone else has the problem?

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    --
    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer-
    friendly.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.13 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
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  • From Vince Coen@2:250/1 to Jim Beard on Sat Jan 18 14:30:23 2020
    Hello Jim!

    Tuesday January 14 2020 18:17, Jim Beard wrote to All:

    I get occassional lock ups using kde with all of the kernel updates, the
    last one was the day after I left for a 2 week break having updated the
    system and rebooted 1 day prior to departure.

    Another funny is that the time display on bottom right locks but in most I
    can still use the system but usually have to reboot soon afterwards anyway.

    Running v7 X64 on a AMD 8350 8? core on a DASD but must get around to
    updating to v7 or reinstalling back on a SSD.


    Problems I wrote about in late December with my desktop freezing for
    kernels later than 5.3.11 are continuing with the new kernel 5.4.10 installed last night.

    The rcs0 hang and possible involvment of gtk2 (or 3) and maybe gfx
    were my suspects earlier, and remain so.

    Kernel 5.3.11 continues to work fine, with 5.3.13, 5.4.2, and 5.4.6 remaining flaky and freezing.

    I will continue to use 5.3.11 in hope future updates will clear the
    problem (assuming it is in the updates, and not just in my
    configuration or hardware), but will ask again if anyone else has the problem?


    Vince


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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/1 to All on Sat Jan 18 16:08:11 2020
    On Tue, 14 Jan 2020 18:17:50 +0000, Jim Beard wrote:

    Problems I wrote about in late December with my desktop freezing for
    kernels later than 5.3.11 are continuing with the new kernel 5.4.10
    installed last night.

    The rcs0 hang and possible involvment of gtk2 (or 3) and maybe gfx were
    my suspects earlier, and remain so.

    Kernel 5.3.11 continues to work fine, with 5.3.13, 5.4.2, and 5.4.6
    remaining flaky and freezing.

    I will continue to use 5.3.11 in hope future updates will clear the
    problem (assuming it is in the updates, and not just in my configuration
    or hardware), but will ask again if anyone else has the problem?

    I finally did what I should have done earlier, I created a new user
    tester, rebooted, and logged in as tester. No problems. Logged in as jim
    to 5.4.12 kernel, the desktop froze up on be as before.

    This morning I started looking at differences between my normal user jim
    and tester, and checked to see what .desktop in tester said. There was
    no .desktop file in tester's home directory. Apparently startx looks for
    and finds something.

    I moved .desktop to .desktop-old, rebooted (to clear everything), and
    startx to load the desktop.

    Desktop is working fine when logged in as jim. No rcs0 hang problems.
    No crashes.

    Fingers crossed, but I think DISPLAYMANAGER=gdm and DESKTOP=GNOME
    triggered some sort of misconfiguration or conflict.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    --
    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer-
    friendly.

    --- MBSE BBS v1.0.7.13 (GNU/Linux-x86_64)
    * Origin: A noiseless patient Spider (2:250/1@fidonet)