** Description changed: this machine is a Dell inspiron 1520 , with 2 GB of RAM , and 200 HDD . running ubuntu 13.04 up to date, left the machine for 30 minutes and screen lock is set to ON!, unlocked the screen then fired up totem to watch a movie , after a couple minutes the following message showed up : "Sorry, the program "gnome-shell" closed unexpectedly Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyse the problem and send a report to the developers." then, X was terminated and drop back to the login manager .. logged back in, and the same popup message appeared again , so my suspicion was that it might be an abnormal CPU usage thought it could be Chromium!, so i've switched to firefox opened the same webpages as it's showing on the following screen shot / http://imgur.com/KCrZGRj but the abnormal usage kept going back and forth between Xorg and Gnome shell reached %60 - 76 CPU usage ! ====================== sary@n1x:~$ lsb_release -rd; uname -a Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) Release: 13.04 Linux n1x 3.8.0-16-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 1 19:52:57 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux sary@n1x:~$ + sary@n1x:~$ free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1017352 946348 71004 0 2292 129532 -/+ buffers/cache: 814524 202828 Swap: 2457596 613604 1843992 Total: 3474948 1559952 1914996 sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 112829108 11551360 95539664 11% / sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ echo $(cat /proc/meminfo | egrep '^(MemFree|Cached|Writeback):' | awk '{print $2}') - + p | dc 227540 sary@n1x:~$ grep ^VmSize /proc/$(pidof X)/status VmSize: 246576 kB sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ apt-cache policy apport apport: Installed: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Version table: *** 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 0 500 http://sa.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status sary@n1x:~$ + + sary@n1x:~$ dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep nvidia + + ii nvidia-310-updates 310.44-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, + kernel module and VDPAU library + + ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.76 amd64 transitional package for ubuntu- + drivers-common + + ii nvidia-settings-310 310.44-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring + the NVIDIA graphics driver + + ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Apr 3 04:23:22 2013 DisplayManager: gdm GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-format' b"'12h'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-01 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-01 (1 days ago)
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1163651 Title: Gnome shell crashed with "apport" complaining about lack of memory to automatically analyse the problem Status in “nvidia-graphics-drivers” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: this machine is a Dell inspiron 1520 , with 2 GB of RAM , and 200 HDD . running ubuntu 13.04 up to date, left the machine for 30 minutes and screen lock is set to ON!, unlocked the screen then fired up totem to watch a movie , after a couple minutes the following message showed up : "Sorry, the program "gnome-shell" closed unexpectedly Your computer does not have enough free memory to automatically analyse the problem and send a report to the developers." then, X was terminated and drop back to the login manager .. logged back in, and the same popup message appeared again , so my suspicion was that it might be an abnormal CPU usage thought it could be Chromium!, so i've switched to firefox opened the same webpages as it's showing on the following screen shot / http://imgur.com/KCrZGRj but the abnormal usage kept going back and forth between Xorg and Gnome shell reached %60 - 76 CPU usage ! ====================== sary@n1x:~$ lsb_release -rd; uname -a Description: Ubuntu Raring Ringtail (development branch) Release: 13.04 Linux n1x 3.8.0-16-generic #26-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 1 19:52:57 UTC 2013 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ free -t total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 1017352 946348 71004 0 2292 129532 -/+ buffers/cache: 814524 202828 Swap: 2457596 613604 1843992 Total: 3474948 1559952 1914996 sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 112829108 11551360 95539664 11% / sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ echo $(cat /proc/meminfo | egrep '^(MemFree|Cached|Writeback):' | awk '{print $2}') - + p | dc 227540 sary@n1x:~$ grep ^VmSize /proc/$(pidof X)/status VmSize: 246576 kB sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ apt-cache policy apport apport: Installed: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Candidate: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Version table: *** 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 0 500 http://sa.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ raring/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status sary@n1x:~$ sary@n1x:~$ dpkg -l | grep '^ii' | grep nvidia ii nvidia-310-updates 310.44-0ubuntu1 amd64 NVIDIA binary Xorg driver, kernel module and VDPAU library ii nvidia-common 1:0.2.76 amd64 transitional package for ubuntu- drivers-common ii nvidia-settings-310 310.44-0ubuntu1 amd64 Tool for configuring the NVIDIA graphics driver ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.6.3.1-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-16.26-generic 3.8.5 Uname: Linux 3.8.0-16-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu5 Architecture: amd64 Date: Wed Apr 3 04:23:22 2013 DisplayManager: gdm GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.desktop.interface' b'clock-format' b"'12h'" InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-01 (1 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) MarkForUpload: True ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set> LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-04-01 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/1163651/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
