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[Marco Trevisan (Treviño) <mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Confirmed

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1082921

Title:
  Unity Dash stability problems

Status in Unity:
  Confirmed
Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Recently upgraded from 10.04 LTS, mainly to get the new Libre Office -- 2 steps, to 12.04 LTS, then to 12.10. 10.04 had been very stable - I would suspend/revive at least once/day for months without needing a reboot. I have come to strongly dislike the Dash, partly because it seems harder to use than the Gnome hierarchical menu, but mostly because it seems to be the cause of multiple system crashes. Here are some examples:
  - I added the System Monitor indicator to the top bar, after which the Dash would frequently show bits of the system load graph instead of icons.  Close the Dash, open again, looks OK usually. On two occasions, opening the dash resulted in bits of the system load graph filling both monitors, freezing the system. Once I was able to get control by switching to a term (ctl-alt-F1), but the other time I had to power down to get control back. I no longer use the system monitor indicator.
  - I have had two other freeze-ups precipitated by poking the Dash icon, when the System Monitor was not active. In both cases, there was no mouse or keyboard control, had to power down. Once the screen went black, the other time it went to random bits of various windows floating around.

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