You have been subscribed to a public bug: At random times doing various activities, Ubuntu will crash to the login screen. At first I read this may be related to FLASH video's, however this has since happened when running After Shot Pro (browsers closed) and Spotify
DMESG has errors around my SATA cable, but those shouldn't cause a crash to log in: [477293.218954] ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [477293.218956] ata5.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [477293.218960] ata5: hard resetting link [477293.218962] ata5: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port [477293.684032] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [477293.700817] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/33 [477293.700827] ata5: EH complete [477380.066259] ata5: EH in SWNCQ mode,QC:qc_active 0x1 sactive 0x1 [477380.066264] ata5: SWNCQ:qc_active 0x1 defer_bits 0x0 last_issue_tag 0x0 [477380.066265] dhfis 0x1 dmafis 0x1 sdbfis 0x0 [477380.066268] ata5: ATA_REG 0x41 ERR_REG 0x84 [477380.066270] ata5: tag : dhfis dmafis sdbfis sactive [477380.066272] ata5: tag 0x0: 1 1 0 1 [477380.066282] ata5.00: exception Emask 0x1 SAct 0x1 SErr 0x300000 action 0x6 frozen [477380.066284] ata5.00: Ata error. fis:0x21 [477380.066287] ata5: SError: { Dispar BadCRC } [477380.066290] ata5.00: failed command: READ FPDMA QUEUED [477380.066295] ata5.00: cmd 60/c0:00:a0:d4:34/00:00:38:00:00/40 tag 0 ncq 98304 in [477380.066296] res 41/84:04:a0:d4:34/84:00:38:00:00/40 Emask 0x10 (ATA bus error) [477380.066299] ata5.00: status: { DRDY ERR } [477380.066301] ata5.00: error: { ICRC ABRT } [477380.066305] ata5: hard resetting link [477380.066307] ata5: nv: skipping hardreset on occupied port [477380.532029] ata5: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) [477380.548714] ata5.00: configured for UDMA/33 [477380.548772] ata5: EH complete When looking at my GDM logs I see: (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): EVO Push buffer channel allocation failed (EE) *** Aborting *** (EE) NVIDIA(GPU-0): Failed to allocate EVO DMA push buffer (EE) *** Aborting *** (II) Unloading nvidia (II) Unloading wfb (II) Unloading fb (EE) Screen(s) found, but none have a usable configuration. Fatal server error: no screens found Please consult the The X.Org Foundation support at http://wiki.x.org for help. Please also check the log file at "/var/log/Xorg.4.log" for additional information. ddxSigGiveUp: Closing log Server terminated with error (1). Closing log file. I don't see any errors in XOrg.0.log pastebin of lightdrm.log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1261287/ I'm running the following: Ubuntu 12.04LTS (up to date on patches) Mythbuntu backend 8 GIG RAM (memtest ok) 2 SATA 1 TB WD Hard drives NVIDIA Driver: 295.40 Chipset: Intel Core Duo 2.33Mhz Motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI Video Card:Nvidia GeForce 8600GTS ** Affects: nvidia-graphics-drivers (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment -- System Crashes to Login Screen (haven been able to continually reproduce) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1062016 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers 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