Bug#735106: gnome-session: Gnome screen goes blank or freezes

[Ramiro Pereira de Magalhães]

Package: gnome-session
Version: 3.8.4-3
Severity: important

Hi,

my Gnome screen freezes or goes blank from time to time. When this happens,
it is impossible to switch to a terminal to restart gnome, so all I can do
is reboot my machine. It happens randomly using almost any application, but
it is far more common to see that happen while using Nautilus, Iceweasel or
Chromium (all installed from the default testing apt-sources). I have a
GeForce 6800 XT card install and I'm using the NVIDIA driver version 304.116
with XOrg 1.14.5 (again, all installed from the default testing apt-sources).

I believe I can help solve this by providing logs or machine configuration,
but I might need some orientation about what to do to get the machine to
write useful logs.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=pt_BR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=pt_BR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages gnome-session depends on:
ii  gnome-session-bin      3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-session-common   3.8.4-3
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.8.5-2
ii  gnome-shell            3.8.4-5

gnome-session recommends no packages.

Versions of packages gnome-session suggests:
ii  desktop-base      7.0.3
ii  gnome-keyring     3.8.2-2
ii  gnome-user-guide  3.8.2-1

-- no debconf information