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gnome-shell package

  1. Bug #1283299
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Comment 0 for bug 1283299

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KML (zemoh) wrote : Video crashed (went to black screen and cursor) in the middle of software update.

Turned on the system and ran a system update (havn't run a system update in 1-2 weeks).

After it downloaded, and started to install, the screen turned black, only with the cursor blinking. Couldn't get screen back by moving mouse or pressing buttons.
Waited till i could see the updates had finished (by looking at my HD activity indicator), and tried going back and forth tty's, still no screen (cursor frozen this time). Restarted gdm* from other tty, screen flashed, but froze again. Rebooted machine, and everything started up fine.

* There is btw also an error when restarting gdm with /etc/init.d/gdm restart . It exits with the following error: /etc/init.d/gdm: 79: /etc/init.d/gdm: Syntax error: "fi" unexpected (expecting "}")

#'ed out fi on line 79 of /etc/init.d/gdm , and after that it seemed to restart (didn't fix the freezing problem in this case though).

ProblemType: Crash
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: gnome-shell 3.10.4-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-11.31-generic 3.13.3
Uname: Linux 3.13.0-8-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.13.2-0ubuntu5
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: GNOME
Date: Sat Feb 22 00:42:33 2014
DisplayManager: gdm
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-shell
GsettingsChanges:

InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-07 (14 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 14.04 "Trusty Tahr" - Alpha amd64 (20140206)
ProcCmdline: gnome-shell --mode=gdm
ProcEnviron:
 SHELL=/bin/false
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x1040500: push %rax
 PC (0x01040500) in non-executable VMA region: 0x00e9a000-0x01ba7000 rw-p [heap]
 source "%rax" ok
 destination "(%rsp)" (0x7f8b8a4caa48) ok
 Stack memory exhausted (SP below stack segment)
SegvReason: executing writable VMA [heap]
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
StacktraceTop:
 ?? ()
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
 g_simple_async_result_complete () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgio-2.0.so.0
Title: gnome-shell crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete()
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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