Screen Corruption and crash after Gnome Shell login
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit into Gnome Shell
2. Observe black flashing squares near Activities button
Observed results:
I'm on 11.10 Gnome Shell, and about once a day, there's a screen corruption around the "Activities" button right after boot: a random group of black squares flashing on and off.
If I continue working, the corruption will get worse, and the top of the screen fills with garbage spreading from left to right. See attached screenshots.
Eventually, Ubuntu crashes to the login screen.
Only occurs right after login. If it doesn't happen then, it never happens, so right now, when I see it, I log out and back in and I'm good.
Notes:
My PC is a desktop. Hardware:
CPU: AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Six Core Processor AM3 3.2GHZ
Graphics: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 1GB Fermi 760MHZ
Software:
Ubuntu 11.10 64-bit
Gnome Shell
Nvidia 290.10 drivers
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xorg 1:7.6+7ubuntu7
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelMo
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
.proc.driver.
NVRM version: NVIDIA UNIX x86_64 Kernel Module 290.10 Wed Nov 16 17:39:29 PST 2011
GCC version: gcc version 4.6.1 (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.1-9ubuntu3)
.tmp.unity.
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,
CompositorRunning: None
Date: Sat Dec 3 10:41:20 2011
DistUpgraded: Fresh install
DistroCodename: oneiric
DistroVariant: ubuntu
DkmsStatus: nvidia-current, 290.10, 3.0.0-13-generic, x86_64: installed
DpkgLog:
ExtraDebuggingI
GraphicsCard:
nVidia Corporation GF104 [GeForce GTX 460] [10de:0e22] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Giga-byte Technology Device [1458:34fc]
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
JockeyStatus:
xorg:nvidia_
xorg:nvidia_
MachineType: To Be Filled By O.E.M. To Be Filled By O.E.M.
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
SourcePackage: xorg
Symptom: display
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
XorgConf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Default Device"
Option "NoLogo" "True"
EndSection
dmi.bios.date: 05/20/2010
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080015
dmi.board.name: JW-A870T-UC3
dmi.board.vendor: JW Technology
dmi.board.version: V1.0
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmerican
dmi.product.name: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
version.compiz: compiz 1:0.9.6+
version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs 20090808ubuntu26
version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.26-1ubuntu1
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affects: | xorg (Ubuntu) → xorg-server (Ubuntu) |
This screenshot shows the garbage accumulating at the top of the screen when I continue working and e.g. typing text into Firefox.