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when I use firefox gnome session crashes and restarts by itself repeatedly (goes back into gdm login). just same as pressing CTRL + ALT + Backspace. initially this problem used to occur when i opened a new tab which included flash. But now it is even more frequent and makes me doubt that it has anything to do with flash.
The problem is that i don't know where exactly i should look to find out what crashes, i looked into
/var/log/messeges and this is the most related thing I could find (which still doesn't say much)
2011-08-30T07:54:42-04:00 localhost gnome-session[26288]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :0.#012
2011-08-30T07:54:42-04:00 localhost gnome-keyring-daemon[26268]: dbus failure unregistering from session: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.any help?
Edit 1: My guess is that it is not a hardware issue, as I do not experience such a problem when using other OS's on my laptop
Edit 2: (necessary clarification as no body replies) I guess my first question is how I should go about finding what is causing the crash rather that how to fix this problem.
Last edited by startover (2011-08-30 17:14:05)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour … bug/791784
It looks like you aren't the only one. How are you starting gdm? If you are using the daemon method, you may want to try using the inittab method. This wiki page has more details
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I am already using inittab method
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It could just be firefox. You could try a different browser or the firefox-nightly to test.
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It could just be firefox. You could try a different browser or the firefox-nightly to test.
in fact, I switched back to firefox 6 from nightly 9 because I had this problem, but nothing changed
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I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. The X crashed when I was running Firefox. But it wasn't a bug. The partition containing root directory was full and the gdm kept crashing. Maybe firefox is eating your drive space.
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I had a similar problem a few weeks ago. The X crashed when I was running Firefox. But it wasn't a bug. The partition containing root directory was full and the gdm kept crashing. Maybe firefox is eating your drive space.
nope, that is not the problem either
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