Ubuntu

Crash when I switch user

Bug #46018 reported by Francis
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Bug Description

Sometime, my PC crash when I use the switch user feature (with the system / logout menu or with ctrl-alt-f7/f9. The crash seem to be random, it doesn't always crash.

When it crashes, I cannot switch to any other terminal and I cannot kill the X server with ctrl-alt-backspace. Only a reboot will solve my problem.

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Amil Ganju (amilganju) wrote :

I am facing the same problem. Actually it crashes every time for me.
In my case even logout results in the same
Im running Ubuntu 6.06 (dapper), Gnome 2.14.x

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jaied (jaied) wrote :

I have the same thing with Ubuntu (dapper) with gnome.

My machine has been Windows for quite some time and i used to let it run for months at a time and have never had any trouble with crashes.

Not long ago i loaded on Suse 10.1 which ran fine until i installed the ATI drivers to get 3D support. After doing this i got the exact same trouble as listed here. The graphics are very stable with OpenGL and running 3D games however switching users or logging out would randomly crash the machine to the point where nothing worked (Logging on to a new session did not crash the computer).

I switched to Ubuntu (Dapper) with gnome thinking it was a Suse or KDE issue but the same thing has started occuring as soon as i updated to the fglrx drivers from the package manager from Ubuntu. I think i will just try buying a NVidia card, but there is definately some kind of problem here.

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Richard Ayotte (rich-ayotte) wrote :

Don't waste you money on an nVidia. The problem exists and they officially stated that they don't support multiple X servers per GPU. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=1379365#post1379365

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