Sorry, that's not really practical to do on a production system. That said, the issue could have been because there wasn't enough disk space. Clearing it up and rebooting seems to have solved things. This is a change in behaviour from previous Ubuntu releases.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1877712 Title: Severe performance degradation in Gnome Shell after upgrade to 20.04 Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Severe performance degradation in Gnome Shell after upgrade to 20.04 - everything is slow, even moving the mouse through a right-click menu has a severely delayed selection animation. Video displaying the problem: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1rAKN- ZKks6o9d37hQMbnMgNeAOy8VZyp ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04 Package: gnome-shell 3.36.1-5ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-29.33-generic 5.4.30 Uname: Linux 5.4.0-29-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat May 9 08:57:02 2020 DisplayManager: lightdm EcryptfsInUse: Yes InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-02-15 (1178 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160719) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.36.1-3ubuntu3 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-05-07 (1 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1877712/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
