Unity freezes after one or two minutes after log-in

[Walter Garcia-Fontes]

Binary package hint: unity

Ubuntu started freezing on this machine since Thursday last week, I can only use it for one or two minutes, no particular pattern on what makes it freezes. Last week I could see the mouse cursos but coudn't do anything, today not even the mouse coursor.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: unity 3.8.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.gpus.0: Error: [Errno 21] Is a directory: '/proc/driver/nvidia/gpus/0'
.proc.driver.nvidia.registry: Binary: ""
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
 NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 270.30 Fri Feb 25 14:34:55 PST 2011
 GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu1)
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,grid,snap,regex,mousepoll,place,imgpng,gnomecompat,move,unitymtgrabhandles,compiztoolbox,wall,vpswitch,animation,resize,session,expo,workarounds,ezoom,staticswitcher,fade,scale,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Apr 11 12:50:07 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-04-01 11:43:10.845270
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
GraphicsCard:
 nVidia Corporation G84 [Quadro FX 1700] [10de:040f] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
   Subsystem: nVidia Corporation Device [10de:049a]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InstallationMedia_: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
InstallationMedia__: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101007)
JockeyStatus: xorg:nvidia_current - NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (Proprietary, Enabled, In use)
MachineType: Dell Inc. Precision WorkStation T3400
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/tcsh
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-8-generic root=UUID=dadc68cb-c217-4aef-a751-ba0b61137c4a ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
ProcVersionSignature_: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
ProcVersionSignature__: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.41-generic 2.6.38.2
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-01 (9 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 06/04/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A09
dmi.board.name: 0TP412
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.type: 7
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA09:bd06/04/2009:svnDellInc.:pnPrecisionWorkStationT3400:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn0TP412:rvr:cvnDellInc.:ct7:cvr:
dmi.product.name: Precision WorkStation T3400
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110407-0ubuntu2
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu11
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.1-0ubuntu3
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu6
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu6

[Alex Launi (alexlauni)]

this may be related to another bug that was fixed with today's upload. could you please update unity to the latest and see if this is still an issue?

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

It seems to be fixed in Unity 3.8.6, I have been working for more than one hour and no freeze.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

I talked too fast. I just got the freeze again. X windows is not responding, everything is working fine in the background. The mouse cursor moves around but nothing can be clicked. I killed the session (first generated bug.apport which I attch), tried to log in back to unity and now the session was frozen right from the beginning. Back to Ubuntu classic I got report of Unity crash which I will report separately and duplicate to this bug.

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

The two crash reports that I got after logging back in, bugs 758462 and 758459 , I'm not sure if they are related to this one. The first one is an Ubuntu One crash and the second one a gnome-disk-utility crash. A duplicate of this second one has been marked as invalid because the use had some stuff of Gnome 3, but I haven't messed around with Gnome 3 at all, at least not consciously.

[Alessio Fattorini (alessio.fattorini)]

I think my bug is related #758482

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

Yours seems to be different, first the graphic cards are note the same, and second, in my case the mouse cursor moves and I can got out from the frozen session with CTRL-ALT F1 or F2.

Right now is really bad, though, it freezes immediately after login into Unity, after I open any application of the launcher or if I click any indicator in the panel.

[Alessio Fattorini (alessio.fattorini)]

I can move cursor, for first 1-2 minuts but i can't do anything. I can do CTRL-ALT F1 etc..
After 2-3 minutes freeze cursor and keyboard, and i can't do anything, CTRL-ALT F1 too

[Bilal Akhtar (bilalakhtar)]

Probably related to bug #757043 .

[Walter Garcia-Fontes (walter-garcia)]

With the updates received on April 15 these (immediate) freezes seem to have gone away. I've been working for 2 hours with no problem, so I close this bug.