Every so often (intermittent, random, and long intervals between), X will crash, giving a lone window, in the middle of the screen, about the size of a standard dialog box (don't know the exact dimensions), which is flashing. That is to say, the window repeatedly closes and opens again, several times a second. The desktop background appears untouched, however the only fix I have found is to go into another TTY, and manually kill the X server from the command line, and restart. Note that this must start in another TTY (or does for me anyway), as the old TTY is now displaying status info.
I am unsure how to replicate this bug, as I had only just booted, and was in the process of starting Chromium, as I normally do, when it happened.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.50-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
.proc.driver.nvidia.version:
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 173.14.30 Thu Apr 14 08:47:14 PDT 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.5.2 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4)
Architecture: i386
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,mousepoll,vpswitch,regex,animation,snap,expo,move,compiztoolbox,place,grid,imgpng,gnomecompat,wall,ezoom,workarounds,staticswitcher,resize,fade,unitymtgrabhandles,scale,session,unityshell]
CompositorRunning: compiz
Date: Mon Oct 10 11:33:25 2011
DistUpgraded: Log time: 2011-09-20 16:50:27.862203
DistroCodename: natty
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus:
nvidia-173, 173.14.30, 2.6.38-8-generic-pae, i686: installed
nvidia-173, 173.14.30, 2.6.38-11-generic-pae, i686: installed
nvidia-173, 173.14.30, 2.6.38-10-generic-pae, i686: installed
virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-11-generic-pae, i686: installed
virtualbox-ose, 4.0.4, 2.6.38-10-generic-pae, i686: installed
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] [10de:03d0] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device [1462:7309]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
Lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:0083 Microsoft Corp. Basic Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 0518:0008 EzKEY Corp.
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:8189 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: MSI MS-7309
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic-pae root=UUID=054edde8-cd4a-49f4-8278-5d46aa1ba57f ro vga=792 splash splash vt.handoff=7
Renderer: Unknown
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-09-20 (19 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 04/09/2009
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: V9.5
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7309
dmi.board.vendor: MSI
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvrV9.5:bd04/09/2009:svnMSI:pnMS-7309:pvr1.0:rvnMSI:rnMS-7309:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: MS-7309
dmi.product.version: 1.0
dmi.sys.vendor: MSI
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.4+bzr20110606-0ubuntu1~natty2
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.23-1ubuntu6
version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A
version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 7.10.2-0ubuntu2
version.nvidia-graphics-drivers: nvidia-graphics-drivers N/A
version.xserver-xorg: xserver-xorg 1:7.6+4ubuntu3.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:6.14.0-0ubuntu4.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.14.0-4ubuntu7.1
version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:0.0.16+git20110107+b795ca6e-0ubuntu7
Hey connorwood71,
You filed this bug report against natty, but I see it's still open and
doesn't appear to have much activity recently. So, now that oneiric
is released and stable, this may be a good point for you to upgrade
and re-test if this issue is still present there.
If it's solved in the new release and you think it's worth backporting
the fix, please indicate that. Or if having the fix in the new release
is good enough, feel free to close out the bug (or let us know and we'll
close it.)
If it's not solved, leave the bug report open. I can't promise we'll
get to it (we get way more bugs filed than we can usually get to), but
your testing and feedback can help out if and when we do.