i3: i3 is crushing/freezing after 5-10 minutes on boot

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[x] Bug
[ ] Feature Request
[ ] Documentation Request
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Current Behavior

I updated my system yesterday and I started to expirience this issue. After booting my system and starting i3 manually with ‘startx’, everything goes fine for 5-10 minutes (I didn’t count the time yet). Then i3 gets stuck or freezed or maybe crushes I don’t know. I can’t use any of i3 commands. I can’t walk between windows/workspaces, can’t open a terminal/other programs, dmenu ($mod+d) is not working etc.

But luckily I’m able to use the programs that previously opened in the current workspace. like my browser or opened terminal. But when two of programs are active in current workspace, I again can not change the focus between them.

what I tryed:

  • Tryed to deactivate compton on startup. same issue…
  • Tryed to run i3 with vanilla config that comes with zero configuration. same issue…
  • I tought that some programs are causing the issue. maybe my browser “qutebrowser” or “emacs” or pdf viewer “mupdf”. then I just booted the system and just typed “startx” and i3 opened with vanilla config. same issue…
  • I tryed to send log files here but because of i3 is freezing, it does not show any logs… or I could’t figure out sorry. But if you guide me for doing it properly, I’m happy to share logs

The only way to fix this issue from my perspective is restarting the system or Ctrl+Alt-F2 and killing i3 and X server and starting from tty2… I hope I described my issue well. Please ask me questions if you have any.

Environment

Output of i3 --moreversion 2>&-: Binary i3 version: 4.15.0.1 (03-13-2018) C 2009 Michael Stapelberg and contributors Running i3 version: < 4.2-200

i3 version:  4.15.0.1
MY CONFIG: https://gist.github.com/savolla/cdc468a1ed1ae691960cfc0dc037cf72
Logfile URL: https://gist.github.com/savolla/1b47dafba74278692f300cb4453a1335
strace LOG: https://gist.github.com/savolla/8a03996c9e7407d0e02ed96222e1b7ee
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- The issue has started after `pacman -Syu` it is for sure.
- Linux Distribution & Version: Manjaro-i3 
- `uname -r`: 4.16.18-rt12-Manjaro
- Are you using a compositor (e.g., xcompmgr or compton): Yes I use compton and also redshift but I've tryed to solve the issue by deactivating them and didn't work..
jj

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments: 19 (13 by maintainers)

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I finally solved this problem.