Hey guys,

I am not sure if this will end up a double post or not. I don't think my first post was descriptive enough.

So I have been using Linux for a few years now. I love Kali and BackTrack before it. I have been trying to move away from using Windows as my main OS, only going to it when I need to use a tool or application not available in Linux. Last year I installed Kali as my main OS and dual booted Windows. After a lot of setup and config I had Kali working just how I wanted it less the WiFi adapter but that isn't a big deal for me ATM. Every morning and every evening I run updates when I am home. I can not be sure but I believe that perhaps an update might have caused this issue.

A few days ago I had a skype call and used my headset. A few days past then yesterday I went to adjust my sound output and selecting sound preferences caused the screen to go black and drop me back to the log in screen. Attempting to select system settings also does this. I believe whatever is wrong is causing gdm3 to crashes and rest but I am not sure. I'm not sure where to start debugging this issue. So any guidance would be great. I have Googled and looked everywhere I could for issues like this but to no avail.

I am running x64 Kali and like I said I update everyday, here is a list of my hardware.


H/W path Device Class Description
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system System Product Name (SKU)
/0 bus P8Z77-V PREMIUM
/0/0 memory 64KiB BIOS
/0/4 processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3770K CPU @ 3
/0/4/5 memory 32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6 memory 256KiB L2 cache
/0/4/7 memory 8MiB L3 cache
/0/1 memory
/0/1/0 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MH
/0/61 memory System Memory
/0/61/0 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MH
/0/61/1 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MH
/0/61/2 memory 8GiB DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1333 MH
/0/2 memory
/0/3 memory
/0/100 bridge Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core proce
/0/100/1 bridge Xeon E3-1200 v2/3rd Gen Core proce
/0/100/1/0 bridge PLX Technology, Inc.
/0/100/1/0/8 bridge PLX Technology, Inc.
/0/100/1/0/10 bridge PLX Technology, Inc.
/0/100/1/0/10/0 display GK104 [GeForce GTX 660 Ti]
/0/100/1/0/10/0.1 multimedia GK104 HDMI Audio Controller
/0/100/14 bus 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/16 communication 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/19 eth0 network 82579V Gigabit Network Connection
/0/100/1a bus 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1b multimedia 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1c bridge 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1c.4 bridge 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1c.4/0 storage 88SE9230 PCIe SATA 6Gb/s Controlle
/0/100/1c.6 bridge 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1c.6/0 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/1 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/1/0 network BCM43228 802.11a/b/g/n
/0/100/1c.6/0/4 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/5 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/5/0 storage ASM1062 Serial ATA Controller
/0/100/1c.6/0/7 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/7/0 bus ASM1042 SuperSpeed USB Host Contro
/0/100/1c.6/0/8 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/9 bridge PEX 8608 8-lane, 8-Port PCI Expres
/0/100/1c.6/0/9/0 eth1 network 82583V Gigabit Network Connection
/0/100/1d bus 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1f bridge Z77 Express Chipset LPC Controller
/0/100/1f.2 storage 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/100/1f.3 bus 7 Series/C210 Series Chipset Famil
/0/5 scsi2 storage
/0/5/0.0.0 /dev/cdrom disk DRW-24B1ST c
/0/6 scsi5 storage
/0/6/0.0.0 /dev/sda disk 240GB MKNSSDAT240GB
/0/6/0.0.0/1 /dev/sda1 volume 100MiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/6/0.0.0/2 /dev/sda2 volume 223GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/7 scsi6 storage
/0/7/0.0.0 /dev/sdb disk 240GB MKNSSDCR240GB
/0/7/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdb1 volume 243MiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/7/0.0.0/2 /dev/sdb2 volume 223GiB Extended partition
/0/7/0.0.0/2/5 /dev/sdb5 volume 223GiB Linux LVM Physical Volume p
/0/8 scsi7 storage
/0/8/0.0.0 /dev/sdc disk 256GB SAMSUNG SSD 830
/0/8/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdc1 volume 238GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/9 scsi8 storage
/0/9/0.0.0 /dev/sdd disk 3TB ST3000DM001-1CH1
/0/9/0.0.0/1 /dev/sdd1 volume 2794GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/a scsi13 storage
/0/a/0.0.0 processor Console
/0/b scsi16 storage
/0/b/0.0.0 /dev/sde disk SCSI Disk
/1 power To Be Filled By O.E.M.