Comment 3 for bug 1734271

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Matt Mayfield (mdmayfield) wrote :

Sure:

- Host hardware: Intel i7 8-core, 16 GB RAM, AMD Radeon R9 270X
- VM guest has 4GB RAM and 4 CPU cores.

I had been using Compiz but also saw this behavior with No Compositor. After some further testing, I got the HUD / menus to work OK with the compositor set to Marco Software Compositor.

There were other general instability issues that are hard to pin down while changing window compositors (Global Application Menu stops working entirely; windows become undecorated; many other small confusing things hard to describe). This is making it tricky to focus on the single issue of the freeze.

I did not see anything in the lightdm or Xorg logs that seemed related, or anything around the times I reproduced the issue.

My next step is to take a snapshot of the VM in its current state, then update using apt to see if anything has changed.