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Cinnamon Freezes (100 CPU Usage) frequently when browsing or steam usage (HW Accelaration disabled)
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Description
Distribution
Mint 22
Package version
Cinammon 6.2.9
Graphics hardware in use
Nvidia GTX 1650 Super
Frequency
Quite often
Bug description
Browser seems to freezee or get an error, but sometimes the entire cinnamon freezees at 100% cpu usage.
While navigating on the web, usually it gets more easier to get triggered on youtube or spotify (while the page is open) or Steam (HW accelation disabled).
For some reason the browser just gets an error, or simply crash the entire cinammon.
I've tried Edge, chrome, chromium, firefox, this happens in all browsers, webkit or not.
I've failed to encounter this issue in other DE, only cinammon.
Today I did open spotify (web player) and after 2 minutes, the entire window freezed.
Opened a tty session, and with top command I was able to see that cinammon was using 100% CPU.
Killed it by using "killall -HUP cinnamon"
Got back to my GUI session (CTRL + F7) and got a dialog saying cinammon had crashed (because I killed it) and selected the disabled all the applets etc option (dispite I don't use any).
I have tried to disable HW accelation from the browsers, expecting it to improve but the instability continues.
Steps to reproduce
Open Chromium or any browser, reproduce a video on youtube or use spotify web with the tab opened and expect a browser crash/full window freezee.
Expected behavior
It was expected to not freezee, the best approach would be to simply crash and restart immediatly and send logs automatically to Linux Mint.
Additional information
Let me know how can I help.
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Research direction
No source file or test is named. Start by reproducing the freeze with Chromium or another browser while playing YouTube or Spotify, then inspect the Cinnamon process and available logs after the 100% CPU condition; done means identifying a Cinnamon-side cause and preventing the freeze or providing a verified fix.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100