System hangs

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While working in various system applications and with Flatpack, the system periodically freezes for 3-5 seconds, the cursor stops responding, then everything works again. There are no such problems on Fedor 43.

Hardware Information:

  • Memory: 16.0 GiB
  • Processor: 12th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-12400F × 12
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650
  • Disk Capacity: 500 GB

Software Information:

  • Firmware Version: A.A1
  • OS Name: Fedora Linux 44 (Forty Four)
  • OS Build: (null)
  • OS Type: 64-bit
  • GNOME Version: 50
  • Windowing System: Wayland
  • Kernel Version: Linux 6.19.10-300.fc44.x86_64
2

You are still using a pre-release version of f44.
F44 is currently in final freeze pending the release, so no changes can be done at present.

Wait until it is released (~ 2 weeks), then perform a full upgrade. After that, if the problem still exists it would be time to present the issue and attempt to find a solution.

3

I think I saw the same issue: The mouse cursor stops responding to input for 1-2 sec, happens rarely.
(Otherwise everything is fine, there are no system freezes or audio stutters.)
Can’t find anything relevant in the logs.
Good to see that I’m not the only one hitting this. GNOME 50 here.

4

give this a try, it works fine for me so far.

it’s vanilla mutter 50.0 with 3 merge requests merged from upstream:
Revert “kms/impl-device: Remove META_DEADLINE_TIMER_STATE_INHIBITED” (!5018) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab
Guard early swap bail behind render source check (!5003) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab
onscreen/native: Move nvidia deadlock prevention to assign_next_frame (!5021) · Merge requests · GNOME / mutter · GitLab

how to install

# dnf copr enable anotheruser/gnome50
# dnf reinstall mutter\* --repo=copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:anotheruser:gnome50
# dnf copr disable anotheruser/gnome50

how to revert

# dnf distro-sync mutter\*
# dnf copr remove anotheruser/gnome50
6

I have not tried your build yet, but thanks a lot for finding the definitive issue & merge request. I was trying to figure out where to report it. :slight_smile:
It’s good to see that it’s already merged upstream. Hopefully the fix will ship not long after F44 launches, as otherwise this will cause widespread annoyance.

7

5021 is not merged upstream yet and needs testing