Jon, This bug has been closed for 11 years...
What you describe sounds like a gnome-shell crash in a Xorg session so please create a new bug and follow: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses#Missing_a_crash_report_or_having_a_.crash_attachment -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/929447 Title: gnome-shell freezes when entering "overview" Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: This is new as of today's updates in precise. Every so often (but frequently) gnome-shell with hang when accessing "overview". Dropping down to console and killing gnome-shell restarts it and I'm able to carry on. But it's damn frustrating ;) Happy to provide additional info, please just let me know what and how to get it. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/929447/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp