Also running 14.04, this has been a problem running on Ubuntu for some time, depending on the hardware.
It's linked to the display of labels, so turning them off fixes things, though As far as I know, there are some workarounds out there, but no fix yet. See the previous threads:
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[log in to unmask]Oliver's workaround has been good enough for me so far, but it's treating the symptom, rather than the root cause. I still have to manually remove labels fairly often.