Re: Spontaneous reset

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On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 11:29 -0700, James Moe wrote:
> On 02/14/2014 07:53 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> >> Recently (the last 2 weeks) Gnome has been spontaneously
> >> resetting as though I entered "alt-F2 r". Has anyone else seen
> >> this?
> > I have seen gnome-shell restarts; but only when using
> > focus-grabbing applications such as VirtualBox or rdesktop.
> > Releasing the focus seems to occasionally crash gnome-shell.  It
> > has not been frequent, or reproducible.
>   We have VirtualBox as well; have been using it for years.
> Nevertheless this has not been an issue until the last couple of weeks.
>   The reset symptoms: The background goes black, all open apps are
> collapsed to a single window (I normally have 3 - 4 populated), and
> there is a lot of CPU and disk activity for about a minute, finally
> the background is loaded.

Do you see anything in dmesg, /var/log/messages, or /var/log/Xorg.0.log
that corresponds to this event?  Check your ~/.xsession-errors as well.




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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA

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