<div dir="ltr">I don't know, for some reason this just smells like bad or not completely seated RAM. Though, a quick google threw this up:<div><br></div><div><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/+bug/1553458">https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-settings-daemon/+bug/1553458</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:45 PM, M. Fioretti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mfioretti@nexaima.net" target="_blank">mfioretti@nexaima.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2016-06-30 19:34, M. Fioretti wrote:<br>
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acpi=off = goes **further* than anything else tried so far,<br>
but *not* to the end. The first time I used it,<br>
Unity closed, I got the purple screen with the<br>
ubuntu text in the middle, and five white dots below.<br>
The leftmost four dots turn red quite quickly,<br>
then it froze all the same<br>
<br>
Second time I tried, it stopped to TWO red dots,<br>
and froze<br>
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now I'm also getting, after getting into Unity, "Sorry, Ubuntu 16.04 has experienced an internal error"<br>
<br>
Problem details include (typing what I see from another computer, sorry. Where is this stuff logged??):<br>
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/usr/lib/unity/settings-daemon/unity-settings-daemon (crashed with sigsegv<br>
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segv reason = readng null vma<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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