I encountered something unusual this morning. When I came into my office this morning the screen on my laptop was blanked with a timestamp of 23:?? on it? I entered my password to unlock, but there was no response at all. I hit ctl-alt-F1 and was able to logon in a terminal window. I ran top, which showed cinnamon eating the CPU. I tried killing the cinnamon-screensaver without effect. I tried killing cinnamon with no effect. I finally hit ctl-alt-BS to restart x and got my desktop back.
How should I have recovered from this situation? Using an x restart seems extreme and could lose me work. Running LM 18.3 x64 cinnamon.
Dave
non-responsive screen saver
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Re: non-responsive screen saver
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Do either of you have additional extensions/applets/desklets installed? If so make sure they are up to date. Buggy add-ons have been implicated with memory leaks in Cinnamon, particularly those that monitor the system (CPU temps etc).
inxi -Fxz
would be good.Do either of you have additional extensions/applets/desklets installed? If so make sure they are up to date. Buggy add-ons have been implicated with memory leaks in Cinnamon, particularly those that monitor the system (CPU temps etc).
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Re: non-responsive screen saver
I have the Multi-Core System Monitor version 1.7.1 installed here. Checking further, it does appear there is an update available that I will check into.smurphos wrote: ⤴Wed May 30, 2018 1:17 pm Output frominxi -Fxz
would be good.
Do either of you have additional extensions/applets/desklets installed? If so make sure they are up to date. Buggy add-ons have been implicated with memory leaks in Cinnamon, particularly those that monitor the system (CPU temps etc).
Do you want that output of that command now, when the problem manifests itself, or both?
Dave
PS: have updated and now running version 1.8.4 of the Multi-Core System Monitor
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Re: non-responsive screen saver
Thanks! Updating the CPU monitor applet seems to have fixed it for me. It's weird that it doesn't update through the update manager like everything else, though.