I just suffered the same situation with wlx (wangliangxu) , sometimes it might restart X to gdm,or lost keyboard and mouse and I have to hold the power button to shutdown my notebook. Here are some details of my PC below. Dell insprion N5010 with Ubuntu 12.04,Unity.(kernel 3.2.0.34) ati HD5650 with amd-driver-installer-catalyst-12.10-x86.x86_64 compiled by myself. And I still post some text from .xsession-errors "(gnome-settings-daemon:12335): GnomeDesktop-WARNING **: GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE helper quit unexpectedly (gnome-settings-daemon:12335): color-plugin-WARNING **: failed to get edid: unable to get EDID for output Backend : gconf Integration : true Profile : unity Adding plugins Initializing core options...done Initializing composite options...done ** Message: applet now removed from the notification area Initializing opengl options...done Initializing decor options...done Initializing vpswitch options...done Initializing snap options...done Initializing mousepoll options...done Initializing resize options...done Initializing place options...done Initializing move options...done Initializing wall options...done Initializing grid options...done I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/home/wen/.compiz/session/1019c2abaa88a6cb55135462276869304600000122850033" Initializing session options...done Initializing gnomecompat options...done Initializing animation options...done Initializing fade options...done ** Message: using fallback from indicator to GtkStatusIcon Initializing unitymtgrabhandles options...done Initializing workarounds options...done Initializing scale options...done compiz (expo) - Warn: failed to bind image to texture Initializing expo options...done Initializing ezoom options...done (compiz:12356): GConf-CRITICAL **: gconf_client_add_dir: assertion `gconf_valid_key (dirname, NULL)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:12335): color-plugin-WARNING **: unable to get EDID for xrandr-LVDS: unable to get EDID for output Initializing unityshell options...done Setting Update "main_menu_key" Setting Update "run_key" Setting Update "show_hud" ** Message: moving back from GtkStatusIcon to indicator ** (zeitgeist-datahub:12990): WARNING **: recent-manager-provider.vala:133: Desktop file for "file:///home/wen/Downloads/Game" was not found, exec: shank-linux-120720110-1-bin, mime_type: inode/directory (gnome-control-center:13015): background-cc-panel-WARNING **: Could not load /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/index.theme: No such file or directory ** (nautilus:12370): WARNING **: Error calling current_status: Method "current_status" with signature "" on interface "com.ubuntuone.SyncDaemon.Status" doesn't exist ** (nautilus:12370): CRITICAL **: syncdaemon_status_info_get_online: assertion `SYNCDAEMON_IS_STATUS_INFO (sinfo)' failed (gnome-settings-daemon:12335): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-settings-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:12375): Gdk-WARNING **: polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. gnome-session[12285]: Gdk-WARNING: gnome-session: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. gtk-window-decorator: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2.0. (gdu-notification-daemon:12570): Gdk-WARNING **: gdu-notification-daemon: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (nautilus:12370): Gdk-WARNING **: nautilus: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (gnome-fallback-mount-helper:12366): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-fallback-mount-helper: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (gnome-screensaver:12989): Gdk-WARNING **: gnome-screensaver: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (telepathy-indicator:12972): Gdk-WARNING **: telepathy-indicator: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (bluetooth-applet:12368): Gdk-WARNING **: bluetooth-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. (nm-applet:12369): Gdk-WARNING **: nm-applet: Fatal IO error 11 (Resource temporarily unavailable) on X server :2. ** (zeitgeist-datahub:12990): WARNING **: zeitgeist-datahub.vala:227: Unable to get name "org.gnome.zeitgeist.datahub" on the bus! " I hope this might be help!