Package: cinnamon Version: 2.6.13-1 Severity: important Hey.
I have a very strange issue. Every now and then (say at least 1 out of 10, rather more) when I do a git mergetool, which then starts meld, the whole destkop freezes. When it froze, CPU goes up 100% as long as cinnamon is displayed - when I switch e.g. to the console, it stops eating up CPU. This never happens when I run meld normally, e.g. via the terminal or via git difftool... maybe the difference is that mergetool does a 3-way-diff, which I don't do otherwise. I also have no clue whether this is cinnamon related, or perhaps at a lower level (GTK?). Nothing helps (e.g. killing meld on the console nor Ctrl-Alt-Esc) except Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (i.e. killing X). There's nothing particular in the logs, at leat not in xorg's log. There's no .xsession-errors. glass.log contains only the following: info t=2015-11-12T00:43:30.484Z PlacesManager: Updating devices info t=2015-11-12T04:07:50.338Z Adding systray: pidgin (20x20px) info t=2015-11-12T04:07:50.338Z Resized pidgin (16x16px) info t=2015-11-12T04:07:50.368Z Adding systray: pidgin (20x20px) info t=2015-11-12T04:07:50.368Z Resized pidgin (16x16px) info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.238Z loading default theme info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.264Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.271Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.272Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.272Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.273Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.273Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! info t=2015-11-12T04:07:51.274Z BackgroundManager: org.gnome.desktop.background changed! The freeze was at 04:07:51Z ... when I log in again, after restarting X, the previously set background image is gone (i.e. not the file, but it's just no longer selected, and I have to configure it again). Also, when I switch back from the console to the frozen cinnamon, the pidgin systray icon's backgroun (i.e. in the square) looks bogus, as if the transparent areas would be wrongly drawn. Not much, but perhaps you have an idea on what to do. I'll report this upstream as well. Cheers, Chris. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages cinnamon depends on: ii caribou 0.4.19-1 ii cinnamon-common 2.6.13-1 ii cinnamon-control-center 2.6.0-2 ii cinnamon-desktop-data 2.6.5-1 ii cinnamon-screensaver 2.6.4-2 ii cinnamon-session 2.6.3-2 ii cinnamon-settings-daemon 2.6.3-2 ii cjs 2.6.2-1 ii cups-pk-helper 0.2.5-2+b1 ii dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend] 0.24.0-2 ii gir1.2-accountsservice-1.0 0.6.40-3 ii gir1.2-caribou-1.0 0.4.19-1 ii gir1.2-clutter-1.0 1.24.2-1 ii gir1.2-cmenu-3.0 2.6.0-2 ii gir1.2-cogl-1.0 1.22.0-1 ii gir1.2-gconf-2.0 3.2.6-3 ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.32.2-1 ii gir1.2-gkbd-3.0 3.6.0-1 ii gir1.2-glib-2.0 1.46.0-2 ii gir1.2-gnomedesktop-3.0 3.18.2-1 ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.18.3-2 ii gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0 1.6.6-1 ii gir1.2-javascriptcoregtk-3.0 2.4.9-2+b1 ii gir1.2-keybinder-3.0 0.3.1-1 ii gir1.2-meta-muffin-0.0 2.6.1-3 ii gir1.2-networkmanager-1.0 1.0.6-1 ii gir1.2-notify-0.7 0.7.6-2 ii gir1.2-pango-1.0 1.38.1-1 ii gir1.2-polkit-1.0 0.105-13 ii gir1.2-soup-2.4 2.52.2-1 ii gir1.2-upowerglib-1.0 0.99.3-1+b2 ii gir1.2-webkit-3.0 2.4.9-2+b1 ii gkbd-capplet 3.6.0-1 ii gnome-backgrounds 3.18.0-1 ii gnome-icon-theme-symbolic 3.12.0-1 ii gnome-themes-standard 3.18.0-1 ii gsettings-desktop-schemas 3.18.1-1 ii libatk-bridge2.0-0 2.18.1-1 ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1 ii libc6 2.19-22 ii libcairo2 1.14.4-1 ii libcinnamon-menu-3-0 2.6.0-2 ii libcjs0 2.6.2-1 ii libclutter-1.0-0 1.24.2-1 ii libcogl-pango20 1.22.0-1 ii libcogl-path20 1.22.0-1 ii libcogl20 1.22.0-1 ii libcroco3 0.6.9-1 ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.2-1 ii libgirepository-1.0-1 1.46.0-2 ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 11.0.4-1 ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-1 ii libglib2.0-bin 2.46.2-1 ii libgstreamer1.0-0 1.6.1-1 ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.3-2 ii libjs-jquery 1.11.3+dfsg-4 ii libmozjs-24-0 24.2.0-3 ii libmuffin0 2.6.1-3 ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libpangocairo-1.0-0 1.38.1-1 ii libpulse-mainloop-glib0 7.1-2 ii libpulse0 7.1-2 ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4 ii libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1 ii libxfixes3 1:5.0.1-2+b2 ii libxml2 2.9.2+zdfsg1-4 ii mesa-utils 8.2.0-3+b1 ii nemo 2.6.7-1 ii policykit-1-gnome 0.105-2 ii python 2.7.9-1 ii python-dbus 1.2.0-2+b4 ii python-gconf 2.28.1+dfsg-1.1 ii python-gi-cairo 3.18.2-2 ii python-imaging 2.9.0-1 ii python-lxml 3.4.4-1+b1 ii python-pam 0.4.2-13.2 ii python-pexpect 4.0.1-1 ii python-pyinotify 0.9.5-1 ii python3 3.4.3-7 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages cinnamon recommends: ii cinnamon-l10n 2.6.3-1 ii gir1.2-gnomebluetooth-1.0 3.18.1-1 ii gir1.2-nmgtk-1.0 1.0.6-2 ii gksu 2.0.2-9 ii gnome-terminal [x-terminal-emulator] 3.18.2-1 ii network-manager-gnome 1.0.6-2 ii xterm [x-terminal-emulator] 320-1 Versions of packages cinnamon suggests: pn python-opencv <none> -- no debconf information