Björn, I cannot do any such debugging, because the moment I open any part of the Libreoffice suite the system completely crashes. This happens only with Libreoffice, no other program.
Christopher, I have tried to update my BIOS, but I am not running a copy of Windows on this machine and when I turned to Lenovo they just said I should install Windows. I opened up this thread at Lenovo's official boards https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/Linux-Discussion/Ubuntu-14-04-2 -BIOS-update-for-G50-45/td-p/2083148 asking for guidance on how to update my BIOS safely, writing down exactly what I've tried and without success, as the BIOS update for my laptop doesn't come with a flashing utility, just a standalone .exe file that cannot be run from a Live Session of FreeDos. There is no Linux tool to help me with the upgrade and as we all know flashing BIOS is risky, especially if there is no specific tool. I have asked also via AskUbuntu if flashing via Windows 7 LiveCD would work, to this day I haven't received a response. If there is a safe and easy to do method of upgrading my BIOS I will gladly do it, because currently I can't enable virtualization among other things. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xorg in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1468664 Title: Libreoffice crashing the whole session in 15.04 Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: [Impact] I've looked around but couldn't find any bug post related to this issue, so I'm posting a new. Libreoffice is known to crash the entire session on certain AMD configurations, mine happens to be one of them. AMD A6-6310 APU w/ AMD Radeon R4 and R5 M230 graphics. Libreoffice worked perfect on 14.04.2 last time I checked, on 15.04 it's unusable due to the crash. Whenever it happens I get: starting version 219 [drm:radeon_acpi_init [radeon]] *ERROR* cannot find a backlight controller and the whole session crashes. [Test case] I've tried also other distributions and kernels. Kernel 3.18 on Manjaro Xfce seems to be unaffected. Previous versions on Ubuntu as well. Kernel 3.19.*+ on Ubuntu and Fedora are also affected. Antergos didn't even boot from the LiveCD because of this. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04 Package: xorg 1:7.7+7ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-21.21-generic 3.19.8 Uname: Linux 3.19.0-21-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1.1 Architecture: amd64 CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Thu Jun 25 10:26:14 2015 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: vivid DistroVariant: ubuntu ExtraDebuggingInterest: No GraphicsCard: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Mullins [Radeon R4/R5 Graphics] [1002:9851] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:381a] InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-20 (4 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Release amd64 (20150422) MachineType: LENOVO 80E3 ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.19.0-21-generic root=UUID=db4352a7-efc2-4393-bfe9-7804d7eb71fc ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7 SourcePackage: xorg UdevLog: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/var/log/udev' UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 07/08/2014 dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO dmi.bios.version: A2CN23WW(V1.05) dmi.board.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.board.name: Lancer 5B2 dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO dmi.board.version: 31900058 STD dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Tag dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO dmi.chassis.version: Lenovo G50-45 dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrA2CN23WW(V1.05):bd07/08/2014:svnLENOVO:pn80E3:pvrLenovoG50-45:rvnLENOVO:rnLancer5B2:rvr31900058STD:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrLenovoG50-45: dmi.product.name: 80E3 dmi.product.version: Lenovo G50-45 dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO version.compiz: compiz N/A version.ia32-libs: ia32-libs N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.60-2 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 10.5.2-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental: libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental N/A version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx 10.5.2-0ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.17.1-0ubuntu3 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev 1:2.9.0-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:7.5.0-1ubuntu2 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917-1~exp1ubuntu2.2 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.11-1ubuntu2build1 xserver.bootTime: Sun Jun 21 09:24:57 2015 xserver.configfile: default xserver.errors: RADEON(G0): [XvMC] Failed to initialize extension. xserver.logfile: /var/log/Xorg.0.log xserver.version: 2:1.17.1-0ubuntu3 xserver.video_driver: radeon To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1468664/+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