Aurora freezes on a daily basis

Aurora
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Hi all,
Lately I see that the mouse cursor and the keyboard freeze for 20-30 seconds after which operation is back to normal. Sometimes however this is just for a second and then it freezes again, most of the times it stays operational.
I looked in the journal and found this around the time it happened:

Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[4331]: [0301/214955.053132:ERROR:scoped_ptrace_attach.cc(27)] ptrace: Operation not permitted (1)
Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[4342]: [17145:14399:0301/214955.076620:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(325)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[4342]: [153:59:0301/214955.076678:ERROR:command_buffer_proxy_impl.cc(325)] GPU state invalid after WaitForGetOffsetInRange.
Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[4314]: [2:2:0301/214955.092295:ERROR:gpu_process_host.cc(953)] GPU process exited unexpectedly: exit_code=512
Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[84941]: [17180:17180:0301/214955.334551:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 1 times!
Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[84941]: [17180:17180:0301/214955.408376:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 2 times!
Mar 01 21:49:55 Aurora flatpak[84941]: [17180:17180:0301/214955.420219:ERROR:gl_surface_presentation_helper.cc(260)] GetVSyncParametersIfAvailable() failed for 3 times!

Some time later I got this:

Mar 01 21:50:25 Aurora kwin_wayland[3009]: kwin_wayland_drm: The main thread was hanging temporarily!

Anyone else having the same problem? I see in the error lines that it has something to do with flatpaks. I do have several of them and all from Flathub.
I don’t use containers and have installed nothing using rpm-ostree:

rpm-ostree status
State: idle
AutomaticUpdates: stage; rpm-ostreed-automatic.timer: last run 15h ago
Deployments:
● ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:51bd277a8fedce7ea28813f75823a49c678f39fa68764f74be9e50980086ddc2
                  Version: 41.20250224.6 (2025-02-24T16:04:22Z)

  ostree-image-signed:docker://ghcr.io/ublue-os/aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable
                   Digest: sha256:39095a4ba1f0e02351d5fd60657e1992684f0e37bd9cae36f6624af4df16d0d4
                  Version: 41.20250223.1 (2025-02-23T06:07:05Z)

Thanks.

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The freezing is probably not an issue with the Flatpaks but more of a problem with the NVIDIA drivers. What graphics card do you have?

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Hi @ledif,

Well, I was thinking the same thing cause even with the Nvidia card being used the CPU usage was pretty high when watching a Youtube video.
I did a rebase to Aurora-stable (without the Nvidia driver for my RTX3060 card) and I am now using the AMD Ryzen 7 6800H and its Radeon Graphics. Watching Youtube now only uses around 4-5% of the CPU, keeping the fans still. (not unimportant)
I saw some threads about people having problem with Nvidia so that made me decide to do the rebase from “aurora-dx-nvidia-open:stable” to “Aurora:stable”.
The reasons I started with the Nvidia version of Aurora was in fact 2 things: I had bought a laptop with the card, paid money for it and wanted to use it, and the second being when I was using Fedora Kinoite, previous to Aurora, without having installed the RPM Fusion Nvidia driver I got crashes. With the driver being used it was rock stable. Now it’s the other way around.
I just continue this way for a while to see if it is rock stable and when the commotion about Nvidia has passed I can always go back to using it.

Thanks for your answer.