Recently my computer is experiencing lock-ups, which, require hitting the power button. This has never happened to me in over 8 years of FreeBSD desktop usage. My computer has always lived on the edge of the ports tree, kernel is box stock, and user-land is built entirely by pouderiere. I have stopped using SVN source builds for kernel updates for quite a while now because
The problem I believe seems to be centered around Plasma5 window/taskbar animations. In particular the 'fallapart' effect in conjunction with 'cursor bounce' busy/working effect. I use a task bar in each of my 4 activities that has an embedded folder view which drops down to all the applications/places/directories I constantly use. Funny thing about starting applications from a folder view short cut none of the animations take place. PLEASE DO NOT FIX THAT! This has worked this way since FreeBSD 11. If an application is started in this way I never have a problem. If an application is started from a launcher (I have 2) LOCK-UP. Used to be rare but recently its becoming evident that something is breaking.
You know I cant even remember if SVN source upgrades
The thing that might help is if I knew how to log a hard crash at Plasma failure time. That might help???
PS: At the moment I do not ever start certain applications from launcher with these animations enabled.
freebsd-update fetch/install
has been doing the job quite nicely. This info may (I don't believe it myself) be relevant because I jumped on FreeBSD 12.1 about a month after it was out. Everything was fine until about patch level 5 (12.1-RELEASE-p5). This is probably just coincidental because when I see a new patch level I upgrade my ports to lattest and/or once per month. That is my best recollection of a time frame reference that comes to mind.The problem I believe seems to be centered around Plasma5 window/taskbar animations. In particular the 'fallapart' effect in conjunction with 'cursor bounce' busy/working effect. I use a task bar in each of my 4 activities that has an embedded folder view which drops down to all the applications/places/directories I constantly use. Funny thing about starting applications from a folder view short cut none of the animations take place. PLEASE DO NOT FIX THAT! This has worked this way since FreeBSD 11. If an application is started in this way I never have a problem. If an application is started from a launcher (I have 2) LOCK-UP. Used to be rare but recently its becoming evident that something is breaking.
You know I cant even remember if SVN source upgrades
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/usr/local/etc.The thing that might help is if I knew how to log a hard crash at Plasma failure time. That might help???
PS: At the moment I do not ever start certain applications from launcher with these animations enabled.