[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1567841] Re: One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

2016-10-25 Thread Carl-Johan Kjellander
I have tried the daily-current, and I could not reproduce the bug by
running it for 20 hours, and usually I can trigger the bug within an
hour.

But, I could get the livecd to match my current setup exactly. For one
thing it uses unity and not gnome-shell, and I can't install things
temporarily with apt-get. So I had to use a statically compiled chromium
instead of google chrome.

I have found two ways of triggering the bug, and it is still there on
"Ubuntu 14.04.5 LTS", and that is by letting one of these two links run
for a long time in google chrome.

http://xkcd.com/1663/
 or
https://vicandblood.itch.io/dopesmoker

And it only happens with Chrome and not Firefox.

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Title:
  One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  I run a setup of 2 radeon graphics cards, with 3 screens, in the
  following layout from left to right counting from 0:

  Card 0 Screen 1, Card 1 Screen 0, Card 0 Screen 0 rotated ccw

  I have been running this setup for a year and it has worked fine. This
  monday I updated some packages and did a reboot, and I usually reboot
  just once a month cause I patch my running kernel with uptrack.

  After the reboot I started noticing problems with the second card,
  Card 1 above. With a mean time between failures of about an hour, the
  second card freezes the screen, I usually notice that the mouse
  pointer isn't visible anymore when I move it across from one screen to
  the middle one. For future reference, the window I have on the middle
  screen is a fullscreen emacs window.

  I have tried the following kernels: vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic,
  vmlinuz-3.13.0-79-generic, vmlinuz-3.13.0-83-generic

  All have the same problem. And nothing shows up in dmesg when the
  freeze occurs, or in the Xorg.0.log, I made copies from before and
  after a freeze.

  If I move the mouse, that I can't see, onto the middle screen, make
  emacs the active window (again I can't see this), scroll around a bit
  with the arrow keys and take a screenshot, the screenshot shows the
  correctly scrolled window, so the big X buffer is actually correctly
  updated.

  If I CTRL-ALT-L to lock the screens, they all go black, but when you
  press enter only the screens on Card 0 shows the lock screen, the
  middle one again shows frozen emacs.

  CTRL-ALT-F1 shows two text terminals on the outermost screens, in the
  middle, you've guessed it, frozen emacs.

  If I go to the menu and select Switch user, surprise! Now the frozen
  screen is gone and it is a gray login screen with the login menu
  actually on the screen to the right.

  Log back into my still running user, boooh, it again shows the
  same frozen emacs.

  Switch to a completely new user, screen in middle is correct and
  working.

  And lastly if I log out completely from my user and log in again the
  screen is now unfrozen, but I have lots of work and it is really
  really annoying to have to log out 8 times during a day at work.

  I'm gonna try one more ancient kernel just to see if there have been
  some changes to drm or the radeon driver, but I am pretty stumped on
  this one. It all worked fine last week.

  Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:  14.04
  Linux rymdborje 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-77.121-generic 3.13.11-ckt32
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: 
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,gnomecompat,snap,imgpng,regex,animation,place,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,workarounds,session,wall,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr  8 10:38:17 2016
  DistUpgraded: 2015-03-16 15:26:59,578 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-65-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-77-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-79-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] 
[1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:03f2]
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] 
[1002:6613] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:04bb]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-13 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1567841] Re: One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

2016-08-10 Thread Launchpad Bug Tracker
[Expired for xorg (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60
days.]

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
   Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Expired

Bug description:
  I run a setup of 2 radeon graphics cards, with 3 screens, in the
  following layout from left to right counting from 0:

  Card 0 Screen 1, Card 1 Screen 0, Card 0 Screen 0 rotated ccw

  I have been running this setup for a year and it has worked fine. This
  monday I updated some packages and did a reboot, and I usually reboot
  just once a month cause I patch my running kernel with uptrack.

  After the reboot I started noticing problems with the second card,
  Card 1 above. With a mean time between failures of about an hour, the
  second card freezes the screen, I usually notice that the mouse
  pointer isn't visible anymore when I move it across from one screen to
  the middle one. For future reference, the window I have on the middle
  screen is a fullscreen emacs window.

  I have tried the following kernels: vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic,
  vmlinuz-3.13.0-79-generic, vmlinuz-3.13.0-83-generic

  All have the same problem. And nothing shows up in dmesg when the
  freeze occurs, or in the Xorg.0.log, I made copies from before and
  after a freeze.

  If I move the mouse, that I can't see, onto the middle screen, make
  emacs the active window (again I can't see this), scroll around a bit
  with the arrow keys and take a screenshot, the screenshot shows the
  correctly scrolled window, so the big X buffer is actually correctly
  updated.

  If I CTRL-ALT-L to lock the screens, they all go black, but when you
  press enter only the screens on Card 0 shows the lock screen, the
  middle one again shows frozen emacs.

  CTRL-ALT-F1 shows two text terminals on the outermost screens, in the
  middle, you've guessed it, frozen emacs.

  If I go to the menu and select Switch user, surprise! Now the frozen
  screen is gone and it is a gray login screen with the login menu
  actually on the screen to the right.

  Log back into my still running user, boooh, it again shows the
  same frozen emacs.

  Switch to a completely new user, screen in middle is correct and
  working.

  And lastly if I log out completely from my user and log in again the
  screen is now unfrozen, but I have lots of work and it is really
  really annoying to have to log out 8 times during a day at work.

  I'm gonna try one more ancient kernel just to see if there have been
  some changes to drm or the radeon driver, but I am pretty stumped on
  this one. It all worked fine last week.

  Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:  14.04
  Linux rymdborje 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-77.121-generic 3.13.11-ckt32
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: 
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,gnomecompat,snap,imgpng,regex,animation,place,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,workarounds,session,wall,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr  8 10:38:17 2016
  DistUpgraded: 2015-03-16 15:26:59,578 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-65-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-77-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-79-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] 
[1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:03f2]
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] 
[1002:6613] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:04bb]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-13 (1486 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 
(20111011)
  MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic 
root=/dev/mapper/fiskgunnar-root ro nomdmonddf nomdmonisw
  SourcePackage: xorg
  Symptom: display
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2015-03-16 (388 days ago)
  dmi.bios.date: 12/22/2011
  

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1567841] Re: One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

2016-06-11 Thread Christopher M. Penalver
Carl-Johan Kjellander, thank you for reporting this and helping make
Ubuntu better.

To see if this is already resolved, could you please test
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ and advise to the results?

** Tags added: bios-outdated-4701

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: xorg (Ubuntu)
   Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I run a setup of 2 radeon graphics cards, with 3 screens, in the
  following layout from left to right counting from 0:

  Card 0 Screen 1, Card 1 Screen 0, Card 0 Screen 0 rotated ccw

  I have been running this setup for a year and it has worked fine. This
  monday I updated some packages and did a reboot, and I usually reboot
  just once a month cause I patch my running kernel with uptrack.

  After the reboot I started noticing problems with the second card,
  Card 1 above. With a mean time between failures of about an hour, the
  second card freezes the screen, I usually notice that the mouse
  pointer isn't visible anymore when I move it across from one screen to
  the middle one. For future reference, the window I have on the middle
  screen is a fullscreen emacs window.

  I have tried the following kernels: vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic,
  vmlinuz-3.13.0-79-generic, vmlinuz-3.13.0-83-generic

  All have the same problem. And nothing shows up in dmesg when the
  freeze occurs, or in the Xorg.0.log, I made copies from before and
  after a freeze.

  If I move the mouse, that I can't see, onto the middle screen, make
  emacs the active window (again I can't see this), scroll around a bit
  with the arrow keys and take a screenshot, the screenshot shows the
  correctly scrolled window, so the big X buffer is actually correctly
  updated.

  If I CTRL-ALT-L to lock the screens, they all go black, but when you
  press enter only the screens on Card 0 shows the lock screen, the
  middle one again shows frozen emacs.

  CTRL-ALT-F1 shows two text terminals on the outermost screens, in the
  middle, you've guessed it, frozen emacs.

  If I go to the menu and select Switch user, surprise! Now the frozen
  screen is gone and it is a gray login screen with the login menu
  actually on the screen to the right.

  Log back into my still running user, boooh, it again shows the
  same frozen emacs.

  Switch to a completely new user, screen in middle is correct and
  working.

  And lastly if I log out completely from my user and log in again the
  screen is now unfrozen, but I have lots of work and it is really
  really annoying to have to log out 8 times during a day at work.

  I'm gonna try one more ancient kernel just to see if there have been
  some changes to drm or the radeon driver, but I am pretty stumped on
  this one. It all worked fine last week.

  Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:  14.04
  Linux rymdborje 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-77.121-generic 3.13.11-ckt32
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: 
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,gnomecompat,snap,imgpng,regex,animation,place,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,workarounds,session,wall,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr  8 10:38:17 2016
  DistUpgraded: 2015-03-16 15:26:59,578 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-65-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-77-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-79-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] 
[1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:03f2]
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Oland PRO [Radeon R7 240/340] 
[1002:6613] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:04bb]
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-03-13 (1486 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Server 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 
(20111011)
  MachineType: System manufacturer System Product Name
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  ProcKernelCmdLine: 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1567841] Re: One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

2016-04-12 Thread Carl-Johan Kjellander
[354327.154763] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.154770] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224001] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.224008] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224572] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.224574] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224585] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.224587] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224594] chrome[16008]: segfault at 10 ip 7fafe02a5b5c sp 
7ffd84ced8f0 error 4 in r600_dri.so[7fafdffef000+399000]
[355403.930696] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (262144, 2, 4096, -12)

Maybe this is related?

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Title:
  One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I run a setup of 2 radeon graphics cards, with 3 screens, in the
  following layout from left to right counting from 0:

  Card 0 Screen 1, Card 1 Screen 0, Card 0 Screen 0 rotated ccw

  I have been running this setup for a year and it has worked fine. This
  monday I updated some packages and did a reboot, and I usually reboot
  just once a month cause I patch my running kernel with uptrack.

  After the reboot I started noticing problems with the second card,
  Card 1 above. With a mean time between failures of about an hour, the
  second card freezes the screen, I usually notice that the mouse
  pointer isn't visible anymore when I move it across from one screen to
  the middle one. For future reference, the window I have on the middle
  screen is a fullscreen emacs window.

  I have tried the following kernels: vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic,
  vmlinuz-3.13.0-79-generic, vmlinuz-3.13.0-83-generic

  All have the same problem. And nothing shows up in dmesg when the
  freeze occurs, or in the Xorg.0.log, I made copies from before and
  after a freeze.

  If I move the mouse, that I can't see, onto the middle screen, make
  emacs the active window (again I can't see this), scroll around a bit
  with the arrow keys and take a screenshot, the screenshot shows the
  correctly scrolled window, so the big X buffer is actually correctly
  updated.

  If I CTRL-ALT-L to lock the screens, they all go black, but when you
  press enter only the screens on Card 0 shows the lock screen, the
  middle one again shows frozen emacs.

  CTRL-ALT-F1 shows two text terminals on the outermost screens, in the
  middle, you've guessed it, frozen emacs.

  If I go to the menu and select Switch user, surprise! Now the frozen
  screen is gone and it is a gray login screen with the login menu
  actually on the screen to the right.

  Log back into my still running user, boooh, it again shows the
  same frozen emacs.

  Switch to a completely new user, screen in middle is correct and
  working.

  And lastly if I log out completely from my user and log in again the
  screen is now unfrozen, but I have lots of work and it is really
  really annoying to have to log out 8 times during a day at work.

  I'm gonna try one more ancient kernel just to see if there have been
  some changes to drm or the radeon driver, but I am pretty stumped on
  this one. It all worked fine last week.

  Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:  14.04
  Linux rymdborje 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-77.121-generic 3.13.11-ckt32
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: 
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,gnomecompat,snap,imgpng,regex,animation,place,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,workarounds,session,wall,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr  8 10:38:17 2016
  DistUpgraded: 2015-03-16 15:26:59,578 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-65-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-77-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-79-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] 
[1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:03f2]
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. 

[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1567841] Re: One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

2016-04-11 Thread Carl-Johan Kjellander
[354327.154763] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.154770] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224001] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.224008] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224572] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.224574] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224585] [TTM] Out of kernel memory
[354327.224587] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (4096, 2, 4096, -12)
[354327.224594] chrome[16008]: segfault at 10 ip 7fafe02a5b5c sp 
7ffd84ced8f0 error 4 in r600_dri.so[7fafdffef000+399000]
[355403.930696] [drm:radeon_gem_object_create] *ERROR* Failed to allocate GEM 
object (262144, 2, 4096, -12)

Maybe this is related?

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Title:
  One of my two graphics cards has started to freeze the screen

Status in xorg package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I run a setup of 2 radeon graphics cards, with 3 screens, in the
  following layout from left to right counting from 0:

  Card 0 Screen 1, Card 1 Screen 0, Card 0 Screen 0 rotated ccw

  I have been running this setup for a year and it has worked fine. This
  monday I updated some packages and did a reboot, and I usually reboot
  just once a month cause I patch my running kernel with uptrack.

  After the reboot I started noticing problems with the second card,
  Card 1 above. With a mean time between failures of about an hour, the
  second card freezes the screen, I usually notice that the mouse
  pointer isn't visible anymore when I move it across from one screen to
  the middle one. For future reference, the window I have on the middle
  screen is a fullscreen emacs window.

  I have tried the following kernels: vmlinuz-3.13.0-77-generic,
  vmlinuz-3.13.0-79-generic, vmlinuz-3.13.0-83-generic

  All have the same problem. And nothing shows up in dmesg when the
  freeze occurs, or in the Xorg.0.log, I made copies from before and
  after a freeze.

  If I move the mouse, that I can't see, onto the middle screen, make
  emacs the active window (again I can't see this), scroll around a bit
  with the arrow keys and take a screenshot, the screenshot shows the
  correctly scrolled window, so the big X buffer is actually correctly
  updated.

  If I CTRL-ALT-L to lock the screens, they all go black, but when you
  press enter only the screens on Card 0 shows the lock screen, the
  middle one again shows frozen emacs.

  CTRL-ALT-F1 shows two text terminals on the outermost screens, in the
  middle, you've guessed it, frozen emacs.

  If I go to the menu and select Switch user, surprise! Now the frozen
  screen is gone and it is a gray login screen with the login menu
  actually on the screen to the right.

  Log back into my still running user, boooh, it again shows the
  same frozen emacs.

  Switch to a completely new user, screen in middle is correct and
  working.

  And lastly if I log out completely from my user and log in again the
  screen is now unfrozen, but I have lots of work and it is really
  really annoying to have to log out 8 times during a day at work.

  I'm gonna try one more ancient kernel just to see if there have been
  some changes to drm or the radeon driver, but I am pretty stumped on
  this one. It all worked fine last week.

  Description:  Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
  Release:  14.04
  Linux rymdborje 3.13.0-77-generic #121-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jan 20 10:50:42 UTC 
2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: xorg 1:7.7+1ubuntu8.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-77.121-generic 3.13.11-ckt32
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-77-generic x86_64
  .tmp.unity.support.test.0:
   
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.19
  Architecture: amd64
  CompizPlugins: 
[core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,compiztoolbox,decor,resize,gnomecompat,snap,imgpng,regex,animation,place,move,vpswitch,mousepoll,grid,unitymtgrabhandles,expo,workarounds,session,wall,ezoom,fade,scale,unityshell]
  CompositorRunning: None
  CurrentDesktop: GNOME
  Date: Fri Apr  8 10:38:17 2016
  DistUpgraded: 2015-03-16 15:26:59,578 DEBUG enabling apt cron job
  DistroCodename: trusty
  DistroVariant: ubuntu
  DkmsStatus:
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-65-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-77-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-79-generic, x86_64: installed
   virtualbox, 4.3.36, 3.13.0-83-generic, x86_64: installed
  ExtraDebuggingInterest: Yes, including running git bisection searches
  GraphicsCard:
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI] Turks XT [Radeon HD 6670/7670] 
[1002:6758] (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
 Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device [1043:03f2]
   Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.