panel and enviroment turns ugly

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; echo; sudo dmidecode -t 1

Thanks

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
Linux uriel-Presario-CQ56-Notebook-PC 2.6.35-28-generic #50-Ubuntu SMP Fri Mar 18 19:00:26 UTC 2011 i686 GNU/Linux

# dmidecode 2.9
SMBIOS 2.6 present.

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
 Manufacturer: Hewlett-Packard
 Product Name: Presario CQ56 Notebook PC
 Version: 059A110000202810010000100
 Serial Number: CNF10763L6
 UUID: 8950A7A6-FB7E-194B-9F7D-1BF3FC5115A9
 Wake-up Type: Power Switch
 SKU Number: LE682LA#AC8
 Family: 103C_5335KV G=N L=CON B=CO S=PRE

Ok and the output of:

sudo lshw -C display

Thanks

PCI (sysfs)

  *-display
       description: VGA compatible controller
       product: M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
       vendor: ATI Technologies Inc
       physical id: 5
       bus info: pci@0000:01:05.0
       version: 00
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi vga_controller bus_master cap_list rom
       configuration: driver=radeon latency=0
       resources: irq:18 memory:80000000-8fffffff ioport:3000(size=256) memory:90300000-9030ffff memory:90200000-902fffff

Ok when the res goes bad, run:

dmesg | tail -n 10

What is output?

[ 22.089482] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 22.089488] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link up
[ 32.361235] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
[ 32.480063] eth0: no IPv6 routers present
[ 37.766435] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
[ 178.332229] show_signal_msg: 6 callbacks suppressed
[ 178.332234] gnome-settings-[1622]: segfault at 0 ip 001a26f7 sp bf821b44 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1[141000+cd000]
[ 236.857799] gnome-settings-[1864]: segfault at 0 ip 001906f7 sp bfd9e964 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1[12f000+cd000]
[ 247.083439] gnome-settings-[1875]: segfault at 0 ip 00b2c6f7 sp bfefd634 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1[acb000+cd000]
[ 271.807452] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions

oh. the res didn't go bad at that time sorry. what is res anyway? it didn't do that thing for sometime now. and I've done manyu changes. it may be solved... if not I'll give u the output of that. thanks a lot

resolution

when the display goes bad, run the command.

it just turned ugly

[ 15.149582] type=1400 audit(1303511084.556:10): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_load" name="/usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession" pid=950 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 15.168241] type=1400 audit(1303511084.576:11): apparmor="STATUS" operation="profile_replace" name="/sbin/dhclient3" pid=954 comm="apparmor_parser"
[ 15.216686] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[ 15.298819] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[ 15.306851] r8169 0000:03:00.0: eth0: link down
[ 15.307053] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[ 19.063617] EXT4-fs (sda4): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=0
[ 143.920080] usb 5-2: USB disconnect, address 2
[ 146.047755] show_signal_msg: 24 callbacks suppressed
[ 146.047767] gnome-settings-[1471]: segfault at 0 ip 00ee56f7 sp bfbb1734 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1[e84000+cd000]

Well one of your ext4 partitions isn't healthy so is mounting read only. Otherwise nothing obvious. All i ca suggest personally is log a bug, lets see if others can contribute. You can also try Natty (Ubuntu 11.04) to see if it happens there too.

Are these the two different looks?

https://launchpadlibrarian.net/65635660/natty-desktop-first-login.png
https://launchpadlibrarian.net/65635699/natty-desktop-subsequent-logins.png

yes, exactly

Please log a bug you have a segfault on gnome-settings

[ 146.047767] gnome-settings-[1471]: segfault at 0 ip 00ee56f7 sp bfbb1734 error 4 in libglib-2.0.so.0.2600.1[e84000+cd000]

Please follow the comment of Pedro Villavicencio on this similar bug report (marked invalid):

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/742374

I'm very new in all this, I tried to follow all that, there is no var/crash directory in my sys. would it be the same if I re-install ubuntu? and I'm not sure how should I report this bug.

thanks a lot

Please tell do you have updated your ubuntu ...? if not please do it from System→Administration→Update manager press on verify button and install updates

yes I have always updated it all

So to help you following the

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/742374

"If you are running the Ubuntu Stable Release you might need to enable apport in /etc/default/apport and restart."

Open a terminal and type:

gksudo gedit /etc/default/apport

change
enabled=0
to
enabled=1
save and exit
and restart your ubuntu

@marcobra
What makes this look like a crash? The two screenshots I posted are from a machine that has Apport enabled, and it has never notified me of an interface crash?

@Urielmehamed
Does it change from one to the other while you're working, or is the issue that it seems to randomly select one or the other appearance when you log in?

@eliah there is a segfault under the starting messages so enabling the option can create some crash report...

@marcobra
Doh! I should have noticed that...

while I'm working, it doesn't seem to be random. but I can't say it's just one thing that makes it happen.

Please follow macrobra's advice about enabling Apport -- this should enable you to report a bug you're experiencing that is likely related to (and might be the cause of) this problem, as well as produce specific information about it which may help in figuring out what's going on.

Correction: "macrobra's" --> "marcobra's" (sorry Marco)