kitty is constantly freezing up about kitty HOT 5 CLOSED

This will have nothing to do with kitty updates and something to do with
some other component on your system.

Regardless, there is nothing I can do to help you without a reproducer.
Or a bisect showing a problematic commit, or build kitty from source
with make debug-event-loop and try to find where it is freezing.

If you think it is caused by a kitty update then downgrade kitty all
previous releases are available as a first step to find which release it
starts happening in. Then build kitty from source and do git bisect to
find the problematic commit.

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Respectfully, it doesn’t make sense that this has nothing to do with upgrading kitty when I’ve had literally no issues with kitty for years until I updated it to the latest version, and nothing else on my system has changed (I’m extremely careful when it comes to changes/updates). I downgraded to v0.31.0 (the previous version I had prior to the latest version) and kitty hasn’t frozen up at all since I did that (on v0.33.1, it would’ve already frozen up at least a few times).

I don’t think it makes sense to just close this issue, because it’s a real issue and it’s unsolved, but it’s your project, so I won’t tell you what to do. As a user of kitty who absolutely loves the project though, I must admit I’m disappointed here.

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There are absolutely no changes between 0.33.0 and 0.33.1 that could
cause kitty to randomnly freeze. As I said, if you feel differently, a
reproducer or a problem commit via git bisect is needed for me to do
anything about it. As is "kitty randomnly freezing" is not actionable.
If you provide useful information I will look at it. Issues that I
cannot confirm are closed. If I can confirm them, they get fixed in a
few hours.

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I've seen the same with 0.33.1 on nixos-unstable. I've found similar older reports where someone mentioned the nvidia driver so I'll leave here min in case that helps.

$ nvidia-smi --version                                                                                                                                                                                    
NVIDIA-SMI version  : 550.67
NVML version        : 550.67
DRIVER version      : 550.67
CUDA Version        : 12.4

In my case it seems to happen regularly when I send neovim to the background with CTRL+Z. Then I can't input anything in my shells but I can switch to firefox and it works fine. What's troubling me is that if I try to open a tty with CTRL+ALT+F2/F3 it freezes as well. Is there a way to disable gpu to check if that's it ? meanwhile I am reverting to 0.33.0 to see if that changes anything.

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This is definitely a driver issue. You can use the mesa env var to turn
on software rendering but performance will fall off a cliff. Cant
remember the name of the env var a quick google will find it.

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