Comment 3 for bug 638664

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
>
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> Unity crashes and mutter hangs the display refresh
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/638664
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>
> 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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Post-Doctoral Fellow,
Dept. of Mathematics,
National Taiwan University,
Taipei, Taiwan.
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