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Hello all,

I am running Ubuntu 10.04LTS with 2.6.37 kernel and I am having the following problem. I am running gnome 2.30.20 and at some point it just dies. It logs me out of my current session and I have to log in again.

This is of course very frustrating because I am loosing all my applications in all my desktops and I have to start everything again and resize them and configure them etc...

The related error messages in /var/log/syslog is the following.

Code:

Nov 28 15:43:23 ha2 kernel: [13048878.121891] [drm:i915_gem_object_bind_to_gtt] *ERROR* Attempting to bind a purgeable object

Nov 28 15:43:24 ha2 kernel: [13048878.986735] device eth1 left promiscuous mode

Nov 28 15:43:40 ha2 kernel: [13048894.902077] device eth0 left promiscuous mode

Nov 28 15:43:40 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Sucessfully made thread 29262 of process 29262 (n/a) owned by '1000' high priority at nice level -11.

Nov 28 15:43:40 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Supervising 1 threads of 1 processes of 1 users.

Nov 28 15:43:41 ha2 pulseaudio[29262]: pid.c: Stale PID file, overwriting.

Nov 28 15:43:43 ha2 pulseaudio[29262]: main.c: Unable to contact D-Bus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoServer: Failed to connect to socket /tmp/dbus-8ORxQly4g9: Connection refused

Nov 28 15:43:44 ha2 gdm-simple-slave[29303]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory

Nov 28 15:43:45 ha2 acpid: client 26937[0:0] has disconnected

Nov 28 15:43:45 ha2 acpid: client connected from 29305[0:0]

Nov 28 15:43:45 ha2 acpid: 1 client rule loaded

Nov 28 15:43:47 ha2 gdm-session-worker[29342]: WARNING: Unable to load file '/etc/gdm/custom.conf': No such file or directory

Nov 28 15:43:47 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Sucessfully made thread 29346 of process 29346 (n/a) owned by '114' high priority at nice level -11.

Nov 28 15:43:47 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Supervising 2 threads of 2 processes of 2 users.

Nov 28 15:43:48 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Sucessfully made thread 29347 of process 29346 (n/a) owned by '114' RT at priority 5.

Nov 28 15:43:48 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Supervising 3 threads of 2 processes of 2 users.

Nov 28 15:43:48 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Sucessfully made thread 29348 of process 29346 (n/a) owned by '114' RT at priority 5.

Nov 28 15:43:48 ha2 rtkit-daemon[1044]: Supervising 4 threads of 2 processes of 2 users.

Nov 28 15:43:49 ha2 gdm-simple-greeter[29340]: Gtk-WARNING: /build/buildd/gtk+2.0-2.20.1/gtk/gtkwidget.c:5636: widget not within a GtkWindow

Nov 28 15:43:54 ha2 pulseaudio[29346]: ratelimit.c: 3 events suppressed

Nov 28 15:46:04 ha2 acpid: client 29305[0:0] has disconnected

Nov 28 15:46:04 ha2 acpid: client connected from 29305[0:0]

Nov 28 15:46:04 ha2 acpid: 1 client rule loaded

Nov 28 15:46:15 ha2 acpid: client 29305[0:0] has disconnected

Nov 28 15:46:15 ha2 acpid: client connected from 29305[0:0]

Nov 28 15:46:15 ha2 acpid: 1 client rule loaded

Nov 28 15:46:17 ha2 gdm-session-worker[29342]: GLib-GObject-CRITICAL: g_value_get_boolean: assertion `G_VALUE_HOLDS_BOOLEAN (value)' failed

Nov 28 15:46:32 ha2 pulseaudio[29262]: alsa-sink.c: ALSA woke us up to write new data to the device, but there was actually nothing to write!

Nov 28 15:46:32 ha2 pulseaudio[29262]: alsa-sink.c: Most likely this is a bug in the ALSA driver 'snd_intel8x0'. Please report this issue to the ALSA developers.

Nov 28 15:46:32 ha2 pulseaudio[29262]: alsa-sink.c: We were woken up with POLLOUT set -- however a subsequent snd_pcm_avail() returned 0 or another value < min_avail.

Any ideas how to fix this? This is pretty annoying as it comes regularly but completely out of the blue...

Thanks

I am not sure how to fix this, but after some research it seems this looks like a pulseaudio bug/issue and common.

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Are you saying this because of the pulseaudio error messages I am getting? Google search does provide information about bug/issues with pusleaudio but I haven't found people complaining about gnome dying..

If I don't care about the sound how can I unload pulseaudio? Is that a module that I could remove ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by panos_gr (Post 4537113)

It is possible that this is caused by pulseaudio. I am looking at different things right now. I never had this problem but others have and it seems that pulseaudio is connected. I really don't know how to fix this. I am sure someone else will leave a reply that is more helpful. I am not sure you can uninstall pulseaudio without uninstalling Gnome.

I found some information for you on this. It appears to be a common bug that isn't related to a single program. So I believe I was wrong when I said pulseaudio. Others have had issue like this running Chrome, Firefox, Wine, VLC, etc.

This is at Ubuntu Forums:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1759011

This is the bug the was filed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/778490

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amdx2_x64 (Post 4537125)

This is me! I 've also noticed that I get a checking battery message when I am logged out forcefully and this is why I disabled all screensavers, turning off screen etc...

Also, it has happened to me using different applications.. Two last times it was with gedit but it seems random.

Quote:

This is the bug the was filed:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...er/+bug/778490

Yes, all this is related and seems to be me. One weird thing to note is that I am NOT using a laptop... and the fact that I am using 10.04, but the bug/issue is that. I'll check .xsession-errors next time to see if that's more helpful.

Some have said it has happened to them on a Desktop PC as well.

It is possible. I have seen reports that this same bug is in Linux Mint 10. I am using Debian Squeeze with Gnome 2 and I haven't had any issues. But I have seen Mint 10 reports, Ubuntu 10-11 reports as well.

Edit: Debian: After some research here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgibin/bugreport.cgibug=5481202009

Arch: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=630138 2009

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Quote:

Originally Posted by eeluve (Post 4537150)

Is that also my case ? http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...rd-bug-916135/

From what you describe it seems so....

Quote:

Originally Posted by Amdx2_x64 (Post 4537152)

Well, the question though is what do we do to fix it..?

It seems to be a Gnome thing then if it has been reported to happen on many different distros and over a period of years

Quote:

Originally Posted by panos_gr (Post 4537163)

Well, the question though is what do we do to fix it..?

It seems to be a Gnome thing then if it has been reported to happen on many different distros and over a period of years

Good question. Hopefully someone jumps in today with something useful.

Just had this again on another machine. Here is the .xsession-erros in case it helps someone to point a solution out...

Code:

root@ha1:/home/ha1# cat .xsession-errors

/etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...

Setting IM through im-switch for locale=en_GB.

Start IM through /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL linked to /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default.

GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-OaO2Jg

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-OaO2Jg/ssh

GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-OaO2Jg

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-OaO2Jg/ssh

GNOME_KEYRING_CONTROL=/tmp/keyring-OaO2Jg

SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-OaO2Jg/ssh



(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:9885): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: cannot register existing type `_PolkitError'



(polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:9885): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed



(gnome-power-manager:9876): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: /build/buildd/glib2.0-2.24.1/gobject/gsignal.c:2273: signal `proxy-status' is invalid for instance `0x90d7d30'

Unable to find a synaptics device.

** (nm-applet:9878): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0

** (nm-applet:9878): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0

** (nm-applet:9878): DEBUG: old state indicates that this was not a disconnect 0

Initializing nautilus-gdu extension

WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXCreatePixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!

Starting gtk-window-decorator

Nautilus-Share-Message: Called "net usershare info" but it failed: 'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory

Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.



I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/ha1/.compiz/session/107beb92ef5c382ea4132282695562234900000098150026"

WARNING: Application calling GLX 1.3 function "glXDestroyPixmap" when GLX 1.3 is not supported!  This is an application bug!

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