Home / ubuntu / Questions / 459841
In Process
SNH
Asked: 2014-05-03 19:23:21 +0800 CST

Unity crashes unexpectedly, no option for recovery

  • 772

Sometimes my Unity session crashes just like that - no window decorations, no panel, but whatever was going on in the background continues, like music playback. Problem is though it cannot be restarted, since the option to kill the X server has been removed from 14.04.

I tried to bind the "sudo service lightdm restart" to a shortcut, to no avail. I also tried to restart Unity by typing "unity", "unity --replace", I tried also "compiz --replace" in the TTY session, nothing worked.

My hardware:

System: Kernel: 3.13.0-39-generic x86_64 (64 bit) Desktop: Gnome Distro: Ubuntu 14.04 trusty Machine: System: TOSHIBA (portable) product: Satellite L650 version: PSK1EE-00Y007SK Mobo: TOSHIBA model: Portable PC Bios: INSYDE version: 2.40 date: 11/09/2011 CPU: Dual core Intel Core i3 CPU M 330 (-HT-MCP-) cache: 3072 KB flags: (lm nx sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 vmx) Clock Speeds: 1: 933.00 MHz 2: 933.00 MHz 3: 1999.00 MHz 4: 2133.00 MHz Graphics: Card: Intel Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller X.Org: 1.15.1 drivers: intel (unloaded: fbdev,vesa) Resolution: [email protected] GLX Renderer: Mesa DRI Intel Ironlake Mobile GLX Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.2.2 Audio: Card: Intel 5 Series/3400 Series High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel Sound: ALSA ver: k3.13.0-39-generic Drives: HDD Total Size: 1500.3GB (35.3% used) 1: id: /dev/sda model: Hitachi_HTS54505 size: 500.1GB 2: USB id: /dev/sdb model: CH11 size: 1000.2GB Partition: ID: / size: 46G used: 9.2G (22%) fs: ext4 ID: /home size: 409G used: 106G (28%) fs: ext4 ID: swap-1 size: 4.09GB used: 0.01GB (0%) fs: swap RAID: No RAID devices detected - /proc/mdstat and md_mod kernel raid module present Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 53.0C mobo: N/A Fan Speeds (in rpm): cpu: N/A Info: Processes: 228 Uptime: 11:52 Memory: 1642.5/3753.0MB Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 1.9.17

14.04

1 Answers

  1. For console use CTRL+ALT+F1 (back to GUI use CTRL+ALT+F7)

    Did you use Compiz Config with extra plugins or effects?

    If yes, try this: dconf reset -f /org/compiz (this will reset your Compiz settings)

    and this: setsid unity (it's creates a session and sets the process group ID)

    Compiz Config can mess up, I don't know why, perhaps integrated graphic cards(?) I had those problems too, I remember that only one cure for that kind of problem is reset compiz settings and configure them again with caution.

    • 0