On Fri, 13 Jan 2023 at 08:21, Ray Andrews via Users users@lists.geany.org wrote:
This is pretty anecdotal I can't say anything for sure, but I'm just coming off a long stint of coding in which Geany was open on my machine all the time and I'd get system hangs maybe once or twice per day -- once in six or eight hours. Usually the computer would freeze except that the mouse would continue to move, but not have any effect. Sometimes the video would go crazy and create a sort of pixilization of the screen that looked like those squares you can point your smartphone at and order a pizza.
Or send your savings to hackerz-r-us :-P
I really had/have no idea who or what was to blame, however I've finished coding for the time being and after a week with no use of Geany, I've had not a single hang.
Without any idea what you are doing/not doing its not possible to say. Maybe your long use of Geany is stressing a flakey part of your system that no other app gets to.
Also, after hangs I'd often see a file like: '.goutputstream-4BLCY1' which I know is created by Geany and not erased in case of some screwup, so it sorta points the finger at Geany.
Well if your systems hung presumably you have to crash/reset it to get it back? So clearly such files won't get cleaned up, its a GTK/Glib temporary that maybe isn't getting removed. Search the Geany issues for goutputstream for some suggestions.
Dunno, is there some way of nailing this down? Some sort of diagnostic or error log or some such that might help? I've reinstalled with no improvement, but that's the Debian repo version. Maybe an update? Pretty thin evidence I know but it begins to look like Geany is misbehaving. I almost wish it happened more than once or twice per day because that would make diagnosis easier. Thots?
Please provide your operating system and version, Geany version, the versions of GTK and glib its _using_ (see help->debug messages and post any other warnings and errors while you are there).
Regards Lex
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