seemingly random logouts, unexpected closing

[Daniel Bruzzone]

Some programs, notably Firefox, GAIM, and Rhythmbox will close unexpectedly leaving no error or the "report crash" option. On more rare occasions, the session will logout when the computer is not doing anything, say while I'm writing an email or reading a news story. This happens in KDE and Gnome (I haven't used XFCE long enough to say decisively whether it does or does not).

Hardware: AMD 64-bit processor, 1 Gb RAM which usually is around 30-35% used, gnome-system-monitor looks fine, I have used both the proprietary and non-proprietary drivers. Logouts seem to occur more often on KDE.

more information at this website: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=537991

[Chris Gregan (cgregan)]

Build: Ubuntu Karmic with July 9 updates
Device: Dell M1330 32-bit

I am consistently reproducing this issue on my system. Although it cannot be linked to a single application, it always occurs when a text field is being edited.

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Launch Firefox
2) Launch Thunderbird
3) Launch Pidgin
4) Launch Terminal
5) Begin editing text in each application (IM, Edit a Bug, Send email, browse filesytem)

After several minutes, system will spontaneously log out. User loses all active work that is not saved.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Please file a new report for your issues. This is a very old bug reported by somebody with different hardware than you. Given that the logouts are most likely X crashes, which are usually caused by graphics driver bugs, it would not make sense to track your issues in Karmic here. Thanks for your understanding.