mutter 3.22.2-3~ubuntu16.10.1 is believed defect and limits uptime to about 8 days 3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1 of 2016-12-20 works better
temporary downgrade to 3.22.2 of 2016-12-20: wget https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+build/11759320/+files/gir1.2-mutter-3.0_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_amd64.deb https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+build/11759320/+files/libmutter0i_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_amd64.deb https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+build/11759320/+files/mutter-common_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_all.deb https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/ubuntu/gnome3-staging/+build/11759320/+files/mutter_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_amd64.deb sudo dpkg --install gir1.2-mutter-3.0_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_amd64.deb libmutter0i_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_amd64.deb mutter_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_amd64.deb mutter-common_3.22.2-2ubuntu1~ubuntu16.10.1_all.deb sudo apt-mark hold gir1.2-mutter libmutter0i mutter mutter-common - remember to unhold when this problem is fixed - reboot and you have infinite uptime again GNOME recovery that does not work: systemctl restart lightdm.service - fails because dbus is affected by the resource leak - the screen saver something refused to load and you go back to greeter ps -fC dbus-daemon - kill the instance owned by your user name killall lightdm now systemctl restart lightdm.service - but GNOME is still hosed and will after a kinute or so terminate your applications with SIGTRAP - /var/crash fills up with crash files - instead, do the downgrade and reboot You cannot use gdm3 because of poor architecture from the GNOME Project in 3.16, 2 years ago: “please folks stop complaining” https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747339 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731654 lightdm seems to work ok ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #747339 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=747339 ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #731654 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=731654 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1658350 Title: Chromium Shows Flashing Black Squares in GPU Rendering To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1658350/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
