After some experimentation I'm able to confirm previous comment and that the dash crashes when the display suspends. I set it to 10 minutes and from unity8.log the crash always happens after 10 minutes without touching the machine.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to unity8 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1656250 Title: Unity8 crashes eventually without any user action [Nested Mir Display Error: Failed to update EGL surface: EGL_BAD_CONTEXT (0x3006)] Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in Mir: Confirmed Status in unity8 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: On Zesty desktop with unity8-session 16.04 349 Test Case 1. Start a unity8 session 2. Launch an app (eg Calculator) 3. Wait Expected result After an hour the session and the calculator are still running Actual result At some point (less than an hour) the session restarts (the calculator is gone if you were not staring at the screen when it restarted) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1656250/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp