[Intrepid] Window enviroment crashes

[Giorgio Stefanoni]

Hi all,

I will try to explain my problem as clear as possible, but is not an easy task since I still do not understand where is the problem. I've upgraded my hardy box to intrepid a pair of weeks ago.

The problem is that after some times that I use Gnome (with or without Compiz enabled does not make any difference) something crashes (don't know what!?!?) and the window enviroment is no more usable. In which sense crashes? Well, if I click on the Gnome menu it does not open it (it just highlights "Applications"), I can't highlight text anymore on any window, if I open the Terminal I cannot write anything in it, if I press te right button of my mouse it does not open any context menu and so on.

To get everything back to normal situation I have to move to a shell (Ctr + Alt + F4), when I come back on the visual environment everything works.

This problem happens in every kind of situation, seems pretty randomly.

Uname: Linux callisto 2.6.27-7-generic #1 SMP Fri Oct 10 03:55:01 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Videocard: Nvidia 8400GS

Tell me what other information can I give.

Giorgio

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

looks like a video driver issue, this needs to be re assigned.

[Giorgio Stefanoni (giorgio-stefanoni-deactivatedaccount)]

I do think that this is related to Xorg server, since before crashing, Xorg starts to eat up the CPU for a while. I cannot find any log that show a strange behavior. Do you have any suggestion? This problem is getting annoying!!

[Giorgio Stefanoni (giorgio-stefanoni-deactivatedaccount)]

I'm still facing this problem, but now I've understood what is the trigger that makes this bug happen. It appears just after having modified the brightness of my notebook's display!!!

Help this will help you...

Giorgio

[Dan Trevino (dantrevino)]

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to New. Thanks again!.