GNOME in failsafe and unable to open new windows

Hello,
Since yesterday, I have many crash in GNOME Shell. The display goes in a kind of failsafe mode (very simple graphics and effects) after some time and I am quickly enable to open new windows after the start of gdm.
I'd have posted a screenshot but I'm not able to do it.
When I try to open a new window in a terminal it fails, seems like an error with the display
$ epiphany
No protocol specified
Failed to parse arguments: Cannot open display:
$ echo $DISPLAY
:0
$ import MyScreenshot.png
No protocol specified
import: unable to open X server `:0' @ error/import.c/ImportImageCommand/368.
I have the Xorg or opened windows process which take way too much CPU than the usual. For example Firefox easily blocks during a few minutes and I have errors related to a script in an extension which does not run.
Here is my ~/.xsession-errors file
I have not made any configuration change lately except the usual updates. I have to restart GDM each time it happens.
Any idea what is causing that ?
Thank you
Last edited by martvefun (2012-07-01 20:13:35)

You mean the graphical card ? I have a nVidia GeForce 8400M GS.
I just noticed I don't have a xorg.conf anymore, just in /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ 3 files with nothing related to the screen
# Catch-all evdev loader for udev-based systems
# We don't simply match on any device since that also adds accelerometers
# and other devices that we don't really want to use. The list below
# matches everything but joysticks.
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev pointer catchall"
MatchIsPointer "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev keyboard catchall"
MatchIsKeyboard "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
Option "XkbLayout" "fr"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchpad catchall"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev tablet catchall"
MatchIsTablet "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "evdev touchscreen catchall"
MatchIsTouchscreen "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Driver "evdev"
EndSection
# Collection of quirks and blacklist/whitelists for specific devices.
# Accelerometer device, posts data through ABS_X/ABS_Y, making X unusable
# http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22442
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer blacklist"
MatchProduct "ThinkPad HDAPS accelerometer data"
Option "Ignore" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad catchall"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "2"
Option "TapButton3" "3"
EndSection
Last edited by martvefun (2012-07-02 14:41:22)

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