You have been subscribed to a public bug: Yet another machine that ran fine in Feisty, but which is having serious problems in Gutsy. This is supposed to be an upgrade? Machine just crashes to a white screen of death, and only solution appears to be to pull the plug and reboot. It seems to be instantly fatal and leaves nothing in the logs--but maybe I'm not looking at the right place there.
This has happened several times in the last few days, so it might be related to a recent update. Searching in bug reports here, I was not able to find any exact matches. In the instance a few minutes ago, only three programs were running: Firefox, terminal, and BOINC (running the World Community Grid). The machine is a Sharp PC-WA70L with an AMD Sempron CPU and ATI graphics. The chip is identified as a Radeon XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE), if I'm looking at the right information with the Device Manager. Glad to provide whatever diagnostic information I can or even run a few tests if it will help--but I don't want to dedicate that much of my time to attempting to repair my tools. These Gutsy problems have already driven me back to Windows several times... I really like Ubuntu and have been using it and recommending it for a couple of years now, but these kinds of problems really strain our relationship--especially when they seem to be getting bigger, not smaller. ** Affects: xorg (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: Incomplete -- Crash to white screen of death (possibly Firefox?) https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/159594 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp