sounds similar to my problem, do you see anything in the logs about "gnome-shell.desktop respawning too quickly" ? https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-April/433948.html Kevin DON'T PANIC On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Theodore Papadopoulo <Theodore.Papadopoulo@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Since several weeks, I get regularly thei Sad Computer icon which > tells me in disconnect and re-connect. But that does not work (and > that is true with every variants of gnome installed on my computer). > In the same situation KDE seems to work well even though that's not my > favorite setup. > > All this seems to be related to switching between a configuration > where the laptop is docked and has two screens and a stadalone > configuration where the internal panel is the only screen. When I > first had the problem, I was unable to login, rebooted and then had > the trouble. With time, I learning that I could take a console, kill > the screensaver and then call the gnome-control-center to switch the > display, but this does not solve the problem completely as it still > happens sometimes after a while. > > I have tried to remove my .gnome[-2] stuff and various other config > stuff such as monitors.xml. I have looked at the various log > (messages, Xorg, ... without any clue at the issue). > > So I'm asking advice in how to analyse and cure definitely this problem. > > Any idea ? > > Thank's > > Theo. > > PS: Another stange behavior on my computer is that I often get a no > more processes situation in cases I have a relatively low number of > processes (~320). I strongly suspect chrome, but it is difficult to be > sure as the system information given by ps seems reasonnable. > > I do not think this is related (except maybe on the fact that it may > create the situation in the beginning, but since the sad computer > remain after reboots, what is corrupted remains even after the process > problem is solved, > > PS2: hum and I also must say that I use the nvidia drivers. I know > this is not the best setup to ask for help here, but this is mandated > by my company, and I believe that the problem is more to be found > somewhere in the gnome configuration files than in some drivers settings. > > PS3: Generally speaking, gnome works great (even though some interface > choices might or might not please people), but when it fails it is > sometimes very difficult to understand where the problem is.... > This is true for some small problems (failure in applets at start > which seems realted to timings problems and are easily solved by > re-logging), but in the case of this sad computer, I believe that more > information should be provided on what fails (or at least where to > look for that information). > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
