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Thanks - will try this but have little hope as not the login is the problem but what happens after the login.
Of nothing else helps I might just reinstall (yet again).
And, yes, I'm on the current kernel, too (forgot to say).
Budgie freezes - mouse, trackpoint, trackpad, nothing is clickable
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SOLUSfiddler Oh I'm sorry - I totally misread you here. This happens right after login and probably isn't Budgie's fault guessing from my stomach.
You can still try what I said above. Alternatively, press the super key ("Windows key"), type "terminal" and hit enter. That will get you a gnome-terminal. Can you check the journal for creepy things? journalctl -b -p 3 for instance? That'd probably be interesting after the crash from a text tty (see above) as well.
Also, have you tried booting a live cd?
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Thanks again!
I shall install SOLUS 4.1 a-new. I keep minute backups, so that shouldn't be a problem but I would like to understand what went wrong.
Booting into a live version of SOLUS works but I don't really know where to go from there to find out more about the actual problem that occured.
Never mind, I just love SOLUS so much that I shall reinstall and not fiddle with too many things at a time in the future... 
SOLUSfiddler :-) Good luck!
6 months later
Were u able to find any fix?
After the latest update
I am seeing the same problem 
I have to restart lightdm unless nothing is clickable or typeable
I can use alt+tab to change to another window but still not clickable
Its really bugging me out
Gonna go to kde it seems
I like budgie cause i can access root in gui and everything is super smooth
Happens to me sometimes as well. It begins with a small portion of the screen starting to flicker. I can move my mouse, but no response to clicks or keyboard keys. What I do, I 'escape' to the ALT-CTL-F2, and I kill lightdm. It restarts itself, and back to business. Yes, I am on Budgie as well.
When did this start? Right after that Budgie patch a few weeks ago. Not pointing any fingers here. :-)
Hope someone tracks down the cause.......
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elfprince This has been a plague and pox before the last update for me. But it's always a 2-3 minute pox: spews wrong characters, doesn't type nothing, and when it does type it resembles NO characters that you did type then freezes again, mouse almost completely paralyzed. Then I wait it out, frustrated for those minutes.
Unproductive as all he**.
It followed me into this fresh install and new computer.
I don't what you guys are doing with ESC and lightdm.
You can ctrl+alt_del INSIDE the GUI? I never tried that ever. Then what to you do? sudo kill lightdm? And that takes you back to GUI desktop? I'd like to try it. Explain this more, please
Also, my mouse/keyboard wireless. And the only way I can hasten those 2-3 minute poxes is turn them off and on again by their hardware power switches. That seems to keep it alive about 5 seconds before paralyzing itself again.
So....I started thinking. If a fast off/on of the wireless peripherals jump starts it a little....then do I have a shi**y dongle? So I moved the dongle 2 hours ago to another usb port.
2 hours freeze-free so far after 10 hours of excruciating and regular peripheral freezes today.
Did I solve it?
Knock on wood.....
EVERYTHING I read online about this in linux is kernel-related so really think I know what I know but likely know nothing
EDIT: took about 3-4 minutes of paralyze to edit this and say my experiment failed
I will keep troubleshooting
EDIT #2---I have worked another solid hour by simply keeping pox-ridden sluggish keyboard but replacing pox-ridden paralyzed mouse with a WIRED mouse. They are a good pair for 60 minutes.
I am absolutely anticipating failure, as is my conditioning to these multiple input freezes, but it's a rare burst of solid production today.
How do you like them variables?
I don't have system freezes anymore (clock stops, functions dead), but all of you, including me, who go through these I/O horrors many times daily....nobody ever states if they are wired or wireless with their keys/mouse. This could be a variable.
It's since a while. More than a month. I've ignored it, because it happened only 1, 2 times every week.
Then I've started a thread (https://discuss.getsol.us/d/5184-session-blocks-and-journal-reports-screensaver-started) because I was working with a colleague of mine and the system suddenly froze. It was embarrassing, because I always predicate how stable is solus. 
Anyway, I've thought that the problem is the screen saver, but I now I think I'm wrong. It's something with the kernel (not the actual latest one). Because, since when it's possible to use the LTS again I've never experienced it.
What's strange is that on the notebook that I've at home it never happened.
brent Wow, I am sorry to hear all this. You seem to be having a much harder experience with this. No, it's not 'ctrl-alt-delete'. Depending on the severity of the freeze, you may be able to use several terminals outside of your desktop.
They can be accessed by CTRL-ALT-F(2,3,4...6) each. You get a white on black console, and you can login. From there you can view logs, top, ps etc. You can even construct another desktop (in addition to your main one, at the same time) using your fav window manager, like OpenBox, using startx.
Anyway, yes, you kill lightdm, using kill -9 (process id). Process ids can be obtained from top, or
ps aux | grep lightdm . For me, once I kill lightdm, the Budgie desktop automatically restarts.
Hope this helps! :-)
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brent How many peripheral devices do you have attached? Perhaps one of them making this havoc? Try having them all detached, except for mouse, screen etc.
Also, to add to my previous reply. The extra 'terminal consoles' are calles ttys. tty0 is the console, the other ones (F2-F6) just terminals. To get back to your desktop you press ALT-F7, since tty7 has the graphic desktop on it. I omitted this info, which is useful. ;-)