I have been experiencing many desktop freezes recently. One way I can fairly reliably (though not always) cause this to happen is to click 'Other locations' in Nautilus file manager. I get a spinning wheel, the mouse cursor moves but nothing else is responsive. I can usually hit ctrl-alt-F3 to bring up a terminal, type pkill nautilus, and then hit ctrl-alt-F1 to get back to the desktop. Sometimes alt-F2 then r will fix things, but not always.
Looking through the Xorg logs I find sequences like the one below.
[ 8718.379] (**) Option "fd" "82"
[ 8718.380] (II) event1 - Power Button: device removed
[ 8718.382] (**) Option "fd" "43"
[ 8718.382] (II) event0 - Power Button: device removed
[ 8718.383] (**) Option "fd" "64"
[ 8718.383] (II) event3 - Microsoft Microsoft Basic Optical Mouse v2.0 : device removed
[ 8718.386] (**) Option "fd" "55"
[ 8718.386] (II) event2 - AT Translated Set 2 keyboard: device removed
[ 8718.777] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:64
[ 8718.777] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:67
[ 8718.777] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 226:0
[ 8718.778] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:65
[ 8718.778] (II) systemd-logind: got pause for 13:66
[ 8734.727] (EE)
Fatal server error:
[ 8734.728] (EE) systemd-logind disappeared (stopped/restarted?)
[ 8734.728] (EE)
[ 8734.728] (EE)
Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support
at http://wiki.x.org
for help.
[ 8734.728] (EE) Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.1.log" for additional information.
[ 8734.728] (EE)
[ 8734.957] (EE) Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file.
It appears that something causes systemd-logind to pause and after a while X server shuts down. I don't know why the pause occurs, or why it doesn't resume. I also get freezes when clicking on links in emails.
Any ideas please?
Steve
