Also happens to me at least once a day! I am using 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10 together with Gnome 3.2.1. There are attached 2 Monitors on a nvidia 460 gtx with the official nvidia driver 280.13. After installing the 295 driver I switched back to the 280s driver due to many more problems with the gnome shell.
I just had a gnome-shell crash and the syslog says as follows: Feb 19 15:15:08 quad goa[10556]: goa-daemon version 3.2.1 starting [main.c:112, main()] Feb 19 15:16:01 quad kernel: [12996.155428] gnome-shell[10608]: segfault at 18 ip 00007f6f66749f40 sp 00007f6f642fd840 error 6 in libpixbufloader-gif.so[7f6f66746000+6000] Feb 19 15:16:02 quad gnome-session[8472]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal Feb 19 15:16:03 quad bluetoothd[1321]: Can't init device hci0: Operation not possible due to RF-kill (132) Feb 19 15:16:04 quad gnome-session[8472]: WARNING: Application 'gnome-shell.desktop' killed by signal Feb 19 15:16:04 quad gnome-session[8472]: WARNING: App 'gnome-shell.desktop' respawning too quickly Feb 19 15:16:04 quad gnome-session[8472]: CRITICAL: We failed, but the fail whale is dead. Sorry.... Feb 19 15:17:01 quad CRON[10654]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/881861 Title: Frequently crashes on Oneiric (often occurs running Libreoffice and Debconf) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/881861/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
