Plz help with (all) desktop(s) crashing.
Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2012 7:31 pm
I have Linux Mint 13 64bit (MATE) on a Dell Optiplex 755 with an NVIDIA NVS 300 (512MB).
Ever since I installed Mint 13 (clean), after I do any number of things, the desktop will crash and I get dropped back out to the desktop login. Usually when I open Chromium, and always when I try to open the settings on my VirtualBox. And sometimes just at other random times. (But always with Chromium and VirtualBox settings.)
(Odd thing: after many days of giving up, I booted and installed all the pending updates, and it starts working fine. In fact, I went into the VB settings and turned on the 3D acceleration in my VB guest install, and all is good, until I have to reboot. And suddenly, it's all back to the way it was--crashing the desktop all the time.
In fact, I try to open my Windows XP VB and I get the error:
"The VM was configured to use 3D acceleration. However, the 3D support of the host is not working properly...."
and now I can't open VB because of that.)
I looked at the Additional Drivers, and I have tried:
NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended] and (post-release updates) [version current-updates]
and neither one seem to make any difference. I've even tried the the "version-experimental-310" and no difference.
So, I installed the newest KDE desktop... same thing. And XFCE... same thing. So it's desktop independent, driver related (I think), hardware certainly.
What can I do to investigate what's causing it to keep crashing? Where can I go from here? What can I try?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
Mechphisto
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Joined: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:49 am
Ever since I installed Mint 13 (clean), after I do any number of things, the desktop will crash and I get dropped back out to the desktop login. Usually when I open Chromium, and always when I try to open the settings on my VirtualBox. And sometimes just at other random times. (But always with Chromium and VirtualBox settings.)
(Odd thing: after many days of giving up, I booted and installed all the pending updates, and it starts working fine. In fact, I went into the VB settings and turned on the 3D acceleration in my VB guest install, and all is good, until I have to reboot. And suddenly, it's all back to the way it was--crashing the desktop all the time.
In fact, I try to open my Windows XP VB and I get the error:
"The VM was configured to use 3D acceleration. However, the 3D support of the host is not working properly...."
and now I can't open VB because of that.)
I looked at the Additional Drivers, and I have tried:
NVIDIA accelerated graphics driver (version current) [Recommended] and (post-release updates) [version current-updates]
and neither one seem to make any difference. I've even tried the the "version-experimental-310" and no difference.
So, I installed the newest KDE desktop... same thing. And XFCE... same thing. So it's desktop independent, driver related (I think), hardware certainly.
What can I do to investigate what's causing it to keep crashing? Where can I go from here? What can I try?
Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.
Mechphisto
Level 1
Posts: 11
Joined: Sat Jun 12, 2010 10:49 am