Strange application lockups

2012-07-19 Thread Emmett Culley
Sometime after the first or second update to Fedora 17 I started noticing that Firefox, Thunderbird, Chrome and Gkrellm would stop updating their screens. It starts off slowly, in that first I notice one of the above apps doesn't paint immediately after switching to the desktop where that app i

Re: Strange application lockups

2012-07-20 Thread Don Levey
On 7/20/2012 01:12, Emmett Culley wrote: ... > > My system is running KDE and is fully updated (30 minutes ago) via the > default repositories. > > Is any body else seeing this? > I have a similar, but perhaps more drastic, problem. When I run KDE, *everything* will lock up after some undetermi

Re: Strange application lockups

2012-07-20 Thread Mark C. Allman
On Fri, 2012-07-20 at 08:42 -0400, Don Levey wrote: > On 7/20/2012 01:12, Emmett Culley wrote: > ... > > > > My system is running KDE and is fully updated (30 minutes ago) via the > > default repositories. > > > > Is any body else seeing this? > > > I have a similar, but perhaps more drastic, pr

Re: Strange application lockups

2012-07-20 Thread Emmett Culley
Mine is a 64bit system and virtually all KDE packages are installed. It has been happening since soon after installing (fresh) Fedora 17. Like Don noted, when this is happening I have no problem switching between desktops, so plasma isn't the culprit, it seems. Because I always see abrt-apple

Re: Strange application lockups

2012-07-20 Thread Don Levey
On 7/20/2012 12:14, Emmett Culley wrote: > Mine is a 64bit system and virtually all KDE packages are installed. > It has been happening since soon after installing (fresh) Fedora 17. > > Like Don noted, when this is happening I have no problem switching > between desktops, so plasma isn't the cul