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