On 1/12/23 16:21, Ray Andrews via Users 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. 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. 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. 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?
You need to look at (several) Linux logs & find timestamps around when your system froze. Do a web search for "linux (distro name) troubleshoot system problems logs." Something similar should find which logs to view. Some, you might have to specify in a CLI to add timestamps to output of the log.
In some distros like (more recent versions) Mint, there's an installed app w/ GUI, called "logs." Go figure. It shows some but not all entries from several logs w/ some filtering options. If evidence isn't shown in something similar to "logs" app, need to look at full logs.