Binary package hint: xorg
Every few days (but twice so far today, within 30 minutes of logon, both of which are unusual - it is usually after a few hours), KDE crashes and I end up on a command line screen. I did not try on this occasion, but normally I can log on at that screen. While I do that the screen sometime blanks and comes back - I think it may be trying to switch to another virtual terminal, eg where KDE should be. I can "service kdm restart" but it does not work.
I can turn the machine off using its power button. It appears to close down cleanly - no disk checks when I turn it back on.
I am using Kubuntu 10.04 Desktop beta 2, last patched yesterday evening, on an eeePC 901.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: xorg 1:7.5+3ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Apr 7 20:57:12 2010
DkmsStatus: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
GdmLog:
Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log'] failed with exit code 1: QInotifyFileSystemWatcherEngine::addPaths: inotify_add_watch failed: No such file or directory
QFileSystemWatcher: failed to add paths: /home/steve/.config/ibus/bus
Bus::open: Can not get ibus-daemon's address.
IBusInputContext::createInputContext: no connection to ibus-daemon
cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log: No such file or directory
GdmLog1: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.1'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.1: No such file or directory
GdmLog2: Error: command ['kdesudo', '--', 'cat', '/var/log/gdm/:0.log.2'] failed with exit code 1: cat: /var/log/gdm/:0.log.2: No such file or directory
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100318)
MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 901
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-19-generic root=UUID=b065d451-8700-43a8-bb52-459629893618 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
dmi.bios.date: 08/05/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1301
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: 901
dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
dmi.board.version: x.xx
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC.
dmi.chassis.version: x.x
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1301:bd08/05/2008:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn901:pvrx.x:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn901:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTekComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x:
dmi.product.name: 901
dmi.product.version: x.x
dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
glxinfo: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
system:
distro: Ubuntu
codename: lucid
architecture: i686
kernel: 2.6.32-19-generic
It just happened a third time, so a lot more frequent today.
This time I had a wee play. The screen I get sent to is tty2. On tty7 it has a few lines that say "unable to write bytes: Broken Pipe". On tty8 (which is where KDE usually is), there is nothing.
I stopped kdm. I tried to start it again, but no luck. However, ps -ef | grep -i kdm showed one process (other than the grep itself). I stopped kdm again and that process went away. There are no processes containing the string kde. There is just one containing an x, which was ata-aux.
This time the system did not freeze up - it seemed as if I could have stayed on the command line for as long as I wanted.
Anyway must post this before KDE goes again. Let me know what additional info I can supply. This bug is making Kubuntu all but unusable today - not so bad previously.