Sad computer with gnome: what to do ?

[Kevin]

sounds similar to my problem, do you see anything in the logs about
"gnome-shell.desktop respawning too quickly" ?

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-April/433948.html


Kevin
DON'T PANIC


On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 5:46 AM, Theodore Papadopoulo
<Theodore.Papadopoulo at inria.fr> wrote:
>  Since several weeks, I get regularly thei Sad Computer icon which
> tells me in disconnect and re-connect. But that does not work (and
> that is true with every variants of gnome installed on my computer).
> In the same situation KDE seems to work well even though that's not my
> favorite setup.
>
> All this seems to be related to switching between a configuration
> where the laptop is docked and has two screens and a stadalone
> configuration where the internal panel is the only screen. When I
> first had the problem, I was unable to login, rebooted and then had
> the trouble. With time, I learning that I could take a console, kill
> the screensaver and then call the gnome-control-center to switch the
> display, but this does not solve the problem completely as it still
> happens sometimes after a while.
>
> I have tried to remove my .gnome[-2] stuff and various other config
> stuff such as monitors.xml. I have looked at the various log
> (messages, Xorg, ... without any clue at the issue).
>
> So I'm asking advice in how to analyse and cure definitely this problem.
>
> Any idea ?
>
>         Thank's
>
>         Theo.
>
> PS: Another stange behavior on my computer is that I often get a no
> more processes situation in cases I have a relatively low number of
> processes (~320). I strongly suspect chrome, but it is difficult to be
> sure as the system information given by ps seems reasonnable.
>
> I do not think this is related (except maybe on the fact that it may
> create the situation in the beginning, but since the sad computer
> remain after reboots, what is corrupted remains even after the process
> problem is solved,
>
> PS2: hum and I also must say that I use the nvidia drivers. I know
> this is not the best setup to ask for help here, but this is mandated
> by my company, and I believe that the problem is more to be found
> somewhere in the gnome configuration files than in some drivers settings.
>
> PS3: Generally speaking, gnome works great (even though some interface
> choices might or might not please people), but when it fails it is
> sometimes very difficult to understand where the problem is....
> This is true for some small problems (failure in applets at start
> which seems realted to timings problems and are easily solved by
> re-logging), but in the case of this sad computer, I believe that more
> information should be provided on what fails (or at least where to
> look for that information).
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