[Bug 957876] [NEW] System crashes after opening Empathy chat window in bottom notification bar

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The bug appears occasionally when opening an Empathy chat within the bottom notification bar in Gnome Shell (where you can type directly in the notification window, not a real Empathy window).
When the bug occurs, everything freezes the moment I click on the symbol in the bottom notification bar and after a few seconds the whole screen shows nothing but random noise. The computer then has to be forced to restart via power button. Strg+Alt+F1 or similar does not have any effect.

I am running Ubuntu 11.10 on a Dell Studio notebook with AMD graphics
chip, however without AMD drivers. I think the bug only occured while
using an external display via HDMI.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: gnome-shell 3.2.2.1-0ubuntu0.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-16.29-generic 3.0.20
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 17 13:02:33 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: gnome-shell
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: empathy (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug oneiric
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System crashes after opening Empathy chat window in bottom notification bar
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/957876
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