More info:
* I was seeing the 'Dl' state of indicator-multiload when the display updating
was stalled.
* Grabbing some stack traces with gdb, one of the threads was stuck in a read()
call.
* Following the few stack symbols, and reading source led to update() in
cpufreqprovider.vala.
* Experimen
I was able to temporarily work around the symptoms I saw by doing
throwaway reads of the
/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/scaling_cur_freq files.
$ uname -rvm
4.13.0-32-generic #35~16.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Jan 25 10:13:43 UTC 2018 x86_64
$ lscpu
Architecture: x86_64
CPU op-mode(s):
Font issue solved for me:
* sudo apt-get install xfonts-100dpi
* restart X session (log out and back in, for example)
Perhaps some xfonts package should be added as a dependency, or at least
to Recommends:? I did not investigate whether/why fonts-liberation could
suffice.
re: context menus in
Having upgraded to the upstream latest 2.31.20130722.0446 from ppa:
gviz-adm/graphviz-dev, I still see the missing label problem with dotty.
Rendering with 'dot' (to png, svg, ps, etc.) has always worked fine for
me.
I have installed all of the Recommended: and Suggested: packages.
FTR, my font r
The only symptom I see is (1) from the original description.
The following just renders an ellipse containing a dot:
$ echo "digraph G { foo; }" |dotty -
"Save graph" seems to work right, so the problem appears to be graphic
rendering, rather than reading the dot language input.
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