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Gnome Desktop Display Freezes After Login When Using VNC (Doc ID 2617879.1)

Last updated on MAY 05, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]
Linux OS - Version Oracle Linux 6.0 to Oracle Linux 7.7 with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel [4.14.35] [Release OL6 to OL7U7]
Linux x86-64
Linux x86-64 on Oracle Public Cloud

Symptoms

 After logging in with a named user to the Gnome Desktop, the display becomes unresponsive or some graphical elements are corrupted

Changes

 The system experienced a severe Out of Memory problem that let to many VNC served Gnome 2 Desktops being killed by OOM killer for memory recovery in previous days.

Cause

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