To confirm: The bug being experienced is that the main screen goes black for three seconds, then is replaced by the greeter. The current session is killed, with no attempt at a clean shutdown.
The bug results in an Xorg Crash log, see above. I have searched for solutions, but most seem to revolve around removing the nouveau drivers and installing the NVidia driver. However, there are other reports that this does not support dual screens unless xinerama is used. Happy to try the nvidea driver provided a) Someone lets me know definitively how to get back! or b) Someone lets me know that dual screen will work. You may assume that I am technically competent and willing to try most things that do not destroy my box! -- 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/1803583 Title: Xorg crash Status in xorg package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: This bug is happening approximately every 24 hours. Any changes to open files are lost (DATA LOSS BEING EXPERIENCED). System is a clean install of Ubuntu 18.10 (XUbuntu). System is up to date with all publish updates. System has two graphics card: 1) NVidia GK208B [GeForce GT 710] 2) NVidia GT218 [GeForce 210] I am reluctant to switch to nvida drivers as google searches indicate that they do not support dual head systems. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10 Package: xorg 1:7.7+19ubuntu8 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12 Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13 Architecture: amd64 BootLog: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/boot.log' CompizPlugins: No value set for `/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins' CompositorRunning: None CurrentDesktop: XFCE Date: Thu Nov 15 16:18:02 2018 DistUpgraded: Fresh install DistroCodename: cosmic DistroVariant: ubuntu DkmsStatus: virtualbox, 5.2.18, 4.18.0-10-generic, x86_64: installed virtualbox, 5.2.18, 4.18.0-11-generic, x86_64: installed ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches GraphicsCard: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation GK208B [GeForce GT 710] [10de:128b] NVIDIA Corporation GT218 [GeForce 210] [10de:0a65] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. GT218 [GeForce 210] [1043:852d] InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-11-07 (7 days ago) InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 18.10 "Cosmic Cuttlefish" - Release amd64 (20181017.2) MachineType: To be filled by O.E.M. To be filled by O.E.M. ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-4.18.0-11-generic root=UUID=9d341c90-212b-47c2-b0f0-a7e607ee860b ro quiet splash vt.handoff=1 SourcePackage: xorg Symptom: display Title: Xorg crash UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 05/04/2016 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 2901 dmi.board.asset.tag: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.board.name: SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. dmi.board.version: Rev 1.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.type: 3 dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr2901:bd05/04/2016:svnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pnTobefilledbyO.E.M.:pvrTobefilledbyO.E.M.:rvnASUSTeKCOMPUTERINC.:rnSABERTOOTH990FXR2.0:rvrRev1.xx:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.: dmi.product.family: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.name: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.product.sku: SKU dmi.product.version: To be filled by O.E.M. dmi.sys.vendor: To be filled by O.E.M. modified.conffile..etc.default.apport: # set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it # you can temporarily override this with # sudo service apport start force_start=1 enabled=0 mtime.conffile..etc.default.apport: 2018-11-11T15:48:31.589269 version.compiz: compiz N/A version.libdrm2: libdrm2 2.4.95-1 version.libgl1-mesa-dri: libgl1-mesa-dri 18.2.2-0ubuntu1 version.libgl1-mesa-glx: libgl1-mesa-glx N/A version.xserver-xorg-core: xserver-xorg-core 2:1.20.1-3ubuntu2.1 version.xserver-xorg-input-evdev: xserver-xorg-input-evdev N/A version.xserver-xorg-video-ati: xserver-xorg-video-ati 1:18.1.0-1 version.xserver-xorg-video-intel: xserver-xorg-video-intel 2:2.99.917+git20171229-1ubuntu1 version.xserver-xorg-video-nouveau: xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.15-3 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/1803583/+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
