Ubuntu 17.04, I've been having an issue where:
- I'll be doing normal stuff (web browsing with a few tabs)
- I notice that the taskbar icons (battery life, bluetooth, volume) have been replaced with a grey "post-it note" icon (default or missing icon).
- At the same time, the launchbar icons (chrome, "files", terminal") disappear completely.
The computer usually keeps working for a few minutes, then crashes. On restart, everything works again.
Some probably-related information:
- I recently updated to Ubuntu 17.04
- I also recently enabled CUDA on my GPU.
- I am seeing similar symptoms as in this question. I'm not sure if it is exactly the same error code, but it is showing "[hardware errors]" for a brief moment when starting up. I'm having trouble getting a photo of exactly what the error is.
Any help, or where to look, would be much appreciated.
Thank you!
Edit: After the errors begin, I have observed the following other symptoms before it crashes:
- From vim, when I try to write I get error 212, "Can't open file for writing".
cd
works butls
does not. The error when I try tols
is something along the lines of "/bin/ls: cannot execute binary file".