[lubuntu-users] Desktop crashing (18.04)?

[Nio Wiklund]

Den 2018-11-29 kl. 23:21, skrev Mark F:
> After I posted that last update, I was thinking how GIMP hasn't crashed 
> since I started stracing pcmanfm. It would previously crash *a lot*. 
> Much more frequently than the typical *days* between pcmanfm crashes. 
> That seemed to confirm my suggestive mind that strace is throttling 
> things and preventing a timing problem.
> 
> However, I haven't use GIMP as much lately. So, I just took a picture 
> (I'm fostering a dog and was overdue for a new photo).
> 
> The first thing I noticed using GIMP (2.10.8): the strace log was going 
> absolutely wild. I'm stracing pcmanfm. Usually it stops emitting when I 
> switch to an application. (I haven't tried a lot of apps. But, I thought 
> I saw that when switching to my chrome browser. The log went dormant.). 
> But, with GIMP, constant log activity (but I'm not stracing it).
> 
> So, that confirmed to me stracing is slowing GIMP down and it wasn't 
> hitting the "timing problem" I've been imaging about all this (clicking 
> too fast, or something).
> 
> Alas... GIMP finally did crash. It didn't freeze (which it used to do). 
> It just disappeared. It's been disappearing. I haven't paid attention to 
> whether freezing stopped, or when freezing and disappearing have both 
> been occurring. (Come to think of it, I think pcmanfm has disappeared 
> too -- in addition to, or replacing the freezing behavior. I stopped 
> paying attention and it was all the same thing to me.).
> So, I have strace-pcmanfm output when GIMP crashed. Maybe someone would 
> like to ponder that? I tailed the last 500k (60mb) lines to a new file. 
> That's 21 seconds worth before I ctrl-breaked out of strace (which I did 
> within 3-5 seconds of GIMP crashing). Remember, the console (stderr) was 
> being captured too. (I don't think I could differentiate that output if 
> I saw it in there.).
> 
> If there's a place I could upload that, let me know. (I can post it to 
> the bug report. I was thinking this is kind of different and related 
> more to my speculation here.).
> 
> 

Hi Mark,

You can try the Ubuntu pastebin,

https://paste.ubuntu.com/

Best regards
Nio