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fubofo
February 21st, 2012, 11:53 PM
Hi guys,

I have a strange issue whereby GNOME shell (3) randomly disappears / reloads . I have no idea what causes this or how to find out what is going on. It's almost like it is reloading for no reason. Again this is very sporadic so I cannot test.

When I say 'disappear' I mean all windows vanish, screenlets vanish then reload in wrong place, Docky vanishes, desktop icons vanish. Also on very few occasions GNOME shell seems to slow down a little, like when bumping Activities, it seems to lag a little before showing overlay.

lshw

kaipee@zoostorm-ubuntu:~$ sudo lshw
[sudo] password for kaipee:
zoostorm-ubuntu
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vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 1f.3
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configuration: latency=0
resources: ioport:500(size=32)
*-scsi
physical id: 1
bus info: usb@1:2
logical name: scsi4
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serial: 3e:a8:d3:67:9c:a8
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kaipee@zoostorm-ubuntu:~$

Frogs Hair
February 22nd, 2012, 02:36 AM
Go to system settings > keyboard > shortcuts > system and enable the command prompt using Alt + F2.

Type lg into the command prompt and press enter . This displays Looking Glass and there you can check for errors that may shed some light on what may be happening. It reads like the shell is crashing and restarting . Press Esc to exit Looking Glass .

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet

fubofo
February 22nd, 2012, 04:18 AM
Thanks for the advice. It's a bit of a pain keeping it running over everything. I'll leave the machine on some day while at work to see if it catches anything.

One concern....will this also crash along with the desktop? If so will it log the errors so I can see once it restarts?