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GalacticStone

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[RESOLVED] Calculator is freezing up

It freezes up right after it opens. It stays frozen and will accept no input of any kind. After a delay of a few minutes, a system dialogue window pops up and asks if I want to wait or kill the app. Only then can you close it.

Clicking once on the icon in the taskbar does nothing, but if you click on it several times it will minimize and disappear from the desktop. However, when you do this, the process is still running and the icon remains in the taskbar.

Here is a link to two screenshots. One of the frozen calc and another of the dialogue window - https://imgur.com/a/XNQ3OuD

This is the first time I have ever filed a bug report...... ever. Anywhere. So, forgive me if this is not the proper format.

Do I need to post any other system info? FWIW, this is almost a virginal Boron install - I have not installed any other software that I can recall, other than updates from Debian.

-mod edit- Marked as [RESOLVED] and not [SOLVED], as this seems to be an upstream issue.

Last edited by hhh (2025-06-17 14:39:19)

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Re: [RESOLVED] Calculator is freezing up

From this bug report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1059773

The accepted workaround is:

gsettings set org.gnome.calculator refresh-interval 0

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marens

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Re: [RESOLVED] Calculator is freezing up

Do I need to post any other system info?

You always get useful error information when you run an application from the terminal.
If there are errors, put the output in code tags and post it.
You can find more about it here (scroll down and find the CODE):
https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/help.php#bbcode

You can also try an alternative calculator by opening a terminal and running the command:

xcalc

Good luck!

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GalacticStone

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Re: [RESOLVED] Calculator is freezing up

I used the gsettings workaround and now it works fine. 

Thanks!

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Daily Driver : Lenovo Ideapad 3 (8G RAM, 250G SSD, Boron)
Workstation : HP Slim Desktop (4G RAM, 1TB HDD, Boron)
Past hardware : Commodore 64, TRS-80, IBM 8088, WebTV