[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#848895: my observations + another workaround

[Douglas A. Augusto]

On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 11:27:18 +0100 Vassil Dimitrov <vassil.dimitrov at gmail.com> wrote:

> b) switching to a virtual terminal, e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F1 and then back to X11
> makes it work again

This trick works for me too. By the way, I just found out that the reported bug
also affects octave-gui (4.0.3-2+b2), which randomly freezes just like
chromium. And the exact same trick you described also works with octave.

I can always reproduce the bug in octave as follows:

 1. Within octave-gui, open a new window; for example plotting something such
    as: plot(-10:1:10)

 2. Switch back to octave's main window and then return to the plot window;
usually it freezes at this point, if not, just repeat the window switching,
alternating between octave's and plot's windows.

-- 
Douglas A. Augusto
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