Mint 12 freezes during audio when hitting the corner menu.

[everywhere]

I've narrowed the problem down to happening when music is playing (happened with both Banshee and Guayadeque) and I hit the upper left corner menu of the current GNOME version. System freezes, I can move my mouse but nothing else. I get the same freeze occasionally at other moments like when I have many tabs open in firefox and do too many things too quickly. I reverted to GNOME classic and so far no freezes while playing audio and doing many things.

This problem seems similar to those described here and here, with no known fix except disabling things. Can anyone suggest a better alternative to GNOME classic, be it a different DE or disabling any other options?

Running Mint 12 x64, the problems happened with GNOME 3 or whatever the default version is.

On a 4 year old Toshiba satellite A305-S6858

CPU~Dual core Intel Core2 Duo CPU T5750 (-MCP-) clocked at 1000.000 Mhz Kernel~3.0.0-12-generic x86_64 Up~4:05 Mem~597.4/3954.3MB HDD~320.1GB(38.7% used) Procs~142 Client~Shell inxi~1.7.7

[stratus_ss]

Have you tried Cinnamon? I cant really help with the troubleshooting except to say look in /var/log/messages /var/log/syslog because I can't reproduce your problem

I tend to use one of the follow DE:

LXDE
Cinnamon
Gnome 3.4

The other popular ones are

Mate
XFCE4

wish I could be more help

[everywhere]

Well after messing around, MATE is working okay for me. When I upgrade to 13 I'll probably stick with MATE. I think it's just that bumper menu in the corner of GNOME 3 that causes it, which is too bad because I really like that feature. Thanks for the suggestions.

[humturtle39]

I'm using Maya now but I had this issue in LM12, uninstalling Banshee and installing Rhythmbox worked for me. Workaround rather than a fix but it didnt bother me, in my opinion both players are as good as each other.