Bug with cinnamon?

[waynus]

I remember reading on a thread some time ago of a bug I have experienced on 17.3 and now on 18.3.

The windowed interface seems to run out of memory and partly freezes sometimes for minutes, applications keep running, the display seems slowed to locked while hard drive spins.

Am i right in thinking this is a known bug?

[smurphos]

Not quite - I've seen lots of reports of people suffering memory leaks or freezes on the forum and on Github, but generally they are difficult to reproduce, not universal, sometimes hardware or kernel specific or related to third party applets / extensions etc.

I don't suffer these issues and have run Cinnamon for a couple of years (18.x and 19).

You can check out https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues to see current issues

https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/labels/BUG & https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/l ... REPRODUCED are also informative.

To troubleshoot this type of thing first thing i would be doing is disabling any third party applets/desklets/extensions and/or trying a fresh user account for a while and see if the problem recurs.

If that doesn't help post up a support request on the forum with your inxi -Fxz output

[waynus]

that's interesting to know, thanks. Apart from being frustrating at times it is not the end of the world. 17.1 didn't do it for me and each install has been a completely fresh install, and with 18.3 it was doing it with the default install.

just curious more than anything else.

[smurphos]

and with 18.3 it was doing it with the default install.

Post your inxi -Fxz output from 18.3 and perhaps we can assist to troubleshoot the issue.

[waynus]

Thanks. Just wanted to know if it was a known bug or not.
Here goes:

System: Host: wayne-P55-USB3 Kernel: 4.4.0-134-generic x86_64 (64 bit gcc: 5.4.0)
Desktop: Cinnamon 3.6.7 (Gtk 3.18.9-1ubuntu3.3)
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia
Machine: Mobo: Gigabyte model: P55-USB3 v: x.x
Bios: Award v: F5 date: 04/28/2010
CPU: Quad core Intel Core i7 870 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 8192 KB
flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) bmips: 23451
clock speeds: max: 2927 MHz 1: 2927 MHz 2: 1463 MHz 3: 1995 MHz
4: 1463 MHz 5: 1330 MHz 6: 1330 MHz 7: 2793 MHz 8: 1596 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GM107 [GeForce GTX 750 Ti] bus-ID: 01:00.0
Display Server: X.Org 1.18.4 driver: nvidia
Resolution: 1920x1080@60.00hz, 1920x1080@60.00hz
GLX Renderer: GeForce GTX 750 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
GLX Version: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 384.130 Direct Rendering: Yes
Audio: Card-1 Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:1b.0
Card-2 NVIDIA Device 0fbc driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.4.0-134-generic
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: de00 bus-ID: 03:00.0
IF: enp3s0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Drives: HDD Total Size: 12002.4GB (44.4% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD40EZRX size: 4000.8GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD20EZRX size: 2000.4GB
ID-3: USB /dev/sdd model: Expansion_Desk size: 2000.4GB
ID-4: USB /dev/sdc model: Expansion_Desk size: 4000.8GB
Partition: ID-1: / size: 555G used: 215G (41%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sdb7
ID-2: swap-1 size: 12.88GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb6
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0C mobo: N/A gpu: 0.0:37C
Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A
Info: Processes: 279 Uptime: 3:40 Memory: 3727.7/12010.7MB
Init: systemd runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: 5.4.0
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.481) inxi: 2.2.35

[smurphos]

Nothing obviously wrong in your inxi. However a quick google NVIDIA 384.130 freezes or NVIDIA GM107 linux freezes it appears that this happens across various distros quite frequently with your hardware and/or driver.

I don't have Nvidia hardware personally, but I would suggest experimenting with the different available drivers including the open-source nouveau driver and see if the system is more stable with a different graphics driver.

[waynus]

Thanks. I have tried other drivers, current setup minimises the problem only happens every few days. Guess I will have to live with it.