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.

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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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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.

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