Clicking Home on Unity Horizontal Dash Freezes WHOLE COMPUTER

[Jason Crockett]

its a duplicate of this bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/1025092

and is reported here

also, affects nvidia cards:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2167023

steam launcher is suspect (since its the first thing to load), and it also affects gnome.

as the xserver-xorg-video-intel package team says, its probably because of a pageflip race condition.. possibly the unity dash teams fault.

i am willing to provide logs and other details. just ask :)

i am using the amdgpu 1.99 drivers from the oibaf ppa. they work well, but this dash problem has plagued me over 2 distros and countless driver versions for over a year! its either steam, wayland or a common demonator between gnome and unity.

thanks for your time.

[Jason Crockett (jesusislord3)]

oh and please add a frigging exception to that race condition!

[Jason Crockett (jesusislord3)]

i pkilled steam, and clicked the unity dash, its instantly frozen the computer. about 2 weeks ago, the best i could wish for was a snappy recovery!

[penalvch (penalvch)]

Jason Crockett, thank you for reporting this and helping make Ubuntu better.

Could you please run the following command once from a terminal by ensuring you have the package xdiagnose installed, and that you click the Yes button for attaching additional debugging information:
apport-collect -p xorg 1581366

When reporting xorg related bugs in the future, please do so via the above method. You can learn more about this functionality at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReportingBugs.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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