Strange behavior since cinnamon 1.6 update

[geoffm]

I've been experiencing peculiar bugs since this afternoon, after my first reboot since upgrading cinnamon. I did the upgrade yesterday and it ran fine (after a cinnamon restart) until I rebooted though, so I'm not sure if cinnamon 1.6 is responsible for those problems. Here are the symptoms:

• When I first boot (autologon is enabled), the panel is unresponsive to the mouse;
• I can open the menu using [super] but it's unusable because I can't click it and the keyboard doesn't focus on it;
• I can run apps using [Alt][F2] but right-clicking doesn't work anywhere; however, popup menus can be summoned using the keyboard menu button (to the right of the spacebar);
• If I reset the X server using [Ctrl][Alt][Backspace], panel and mouse behaviors are back to normal
• Even after resetting the X server, I've experience a couple of freezes (in the last hours) where everything is frozen but the mouse cursor, which I can move around (but clicking anywhere doesn't achieve anything). Fortunately, I can reset X server using [Ctrl][Alt][Backspace]

Maybe there are people out there experiencing the same behaviors, or who could identify which part of the system might be responsible for this?
I will try downgrading cinnamon and report back.

Edit:

• I tried downgrading the cinnamon package, I guess there are other modifications I should have done because the window manager wouldn't load. Back to version 1.6 now.
• By disabling automatic login, I get a fonctionnal panel on first logon, even if the timed login takes over. So setting a timed login of 1 second seems like a satisfying workaround for now.
• I did encounter another freeze this morning. I was playing music and the music player kept on playing, I could move the cursor around but otherwise user interface was unresponsive. Hopefully future versions will have this solved.

[Rehdon]

Your description fits, at least in part, with this reported and now closed issue: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/705.

I only suffer from the occasional freezes since I upgraded to Cinnamon 1.6 but, in my case, they seem to be related to any disk/media activity: every time I insert a USB key, a CD or access unmounted partitions the desktop freezes for about 5 seconds, sometimes more, CPU usage goes up to 100% and the computer is unusable.

Perhaps we should reopen the issue. BTW, in Gnome 2.32 there was a tool to browse system logs, is there an equivalent in Cinnamon / Gnome 3?

[geoffm]

in Gnome 2.32 there was a tool to browse system logs, is there an equivalent in Cinnamon / Gnome 3?

Maybe gnome-system-log is what you are talking about? It is part of the initial installation on Maya. Found in System Tools under the name Log File Viewer

[Rehdon]

Thanks a lot. It doesn't help that System / Config / Preferences utilities are spread in several different places ...