Unity crashes and mutter hangs the display refresh

[Narayanan N]

Binary package hint: unity

I reported a problem with mutter, in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/638662, but i got a crash of unity as well. So reporting with a gdb trace.

Just after today's update, I am no longer able to use the unity interface to login. I only get a blank screen after logging in.
When I logged into gnome session and started mutter, no more X events were handled neither the display got refreshed. I even tried to open some programs from the console by typing xterm, firefox, gv etc. All these were executed, but no change in the display screen. Only mouse pointer can be seen moving.

Later I tried to use gdb. But there is no crash of mutter whatever I tried. When I started unity (unity -s or unity -p) from terminal after mutter was started, I could see the mouse pointer change to I if I open a terminal or back to default if I move it away. Then if i used the mouse to click at some random places, it ends up in a crash of unity.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: unity 0.2.38-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Sep 15 12:52:56 2010
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.
There is a mesa update in the way which may fixes this, can you please reopen the bug if it's still occurs after this update?

[Narayanan N (narayana)]

After an update I did 2 days before, this does not happen with me. Seems to
be fixed. I have logged in say about 10 times since then.

narayanan

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Didier Roche <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for reporting this bug and help to make ubuntu better.
> There is a mesa update in the way which may fixes this, can you please
> reopen the bug if it's still occurs after this update?
>
> ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> --
> Unity crashes and mutter hangs the display refresh
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/638664
> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber
> of the bug.
>
> Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: unity
>
> I reported a problem with mutter, in
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/mutter/+bug/638662, but i got a
> crash of unity as well. So reporting with a gdb trace.
>
> Just after today's update, I am no longer able to use the unity interface
> to login. I only get a blank screen after logging in.
> When I logged into gnome session and started mutter, no more X events were
> handled neither the display got refreshed. I even tried to open some
> programs from the console by typing xterm, firefox, gv etc. All these were
> executed, but no change in the display screen. Only mouse pointer can be
> seen moving.
>
> Later I tried to use gdb. But there is no crash of mutter whatever I tried.
> When I started unity (unity -s or unity -p) from terminal after mutter was
> started, I could see the mouse pointer change to I if I open a terminal or
> back to default if I move it away. Then if i used the mouse to click at some
> random places, it ends up in a crash of unity.
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
> Package: unity 0.2.38-0ubuntu1
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-20.29-generic 2.6.35.4
> Uname: Linux 2.6.35-20-generic i686
> Architecture: i386
> Date: Wed Sep 15 12:52:56 2010
> ProcEnviron:
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_GB.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> SourcePackage: unity
>
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Narayanan / നാരായണന്‍ / नारायणन् / னாராயணன் / 那拉亞南
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Dept. of Mathematics,
National Taiwan University,
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[Vish (vish)]

Thanks for following up. This bug report is being closed due to your last comment regarding this being fixed with an update.

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