Freezes/breaks GUI on Ubuntu 18.04
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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System Load Indicator |
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Bug Description
I installed Ubuntu 18.04 Bionic Beaver a couple of days ago.
I used sudo apt-get install indicator-multiload to install SLI.
I ran indicator-
I right-clicked on it, selected preferences, and then adjusted the width of the indicator. Didn't seem to work (number in preferences increased, but size of indicator didn't seem to). Added the option for disk activity — got a text readout.
About 10 seconds later — while continuing to look through the preferences — my entire GUI locked up. I couldn't do anything except move the mouse.
Didn't know about REISUB at the time, so had to do a hard reboot.
When the system came back up, it entered the GUI for about a second (I got to see the desktop for that long) before automatically exiting the GUI and going back to the Login screen. If I logged back in the system would hang at a blank purple screen. This was repeatable.
Booting into the CLI via GRUB, and issuing sudo apt-get purge indicator-multiload restored the GUI to a functioning state.
Reinstalling indicator-multiload resulted in 1 sec GUI failure (auto kickout to Login screen) as before.
Not sure where to go or what to try from here.
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Please, remove indicator-multiload from archive, as we now have a better gnome-shell suite.
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- Freezes GUI on Ubuntu 18.04 + Freezes/breaks GUI on Ubuntu 18.04 |
I experience similar issues as reported above. At the moment, I can't reproduce the GUI lockup (I had that earlier though). However, the GUI feels slow. gnome-shell and indicator-multiload need almost 20% of the CPU.
I attached an excerpt of the syslog while indicator-multiload is running.