hey Daniel, if I'm reading the first part of your reply right, it sounds like gnome- shell extensions can hard crash gnome-shell? which means it's not safe to ever use any extensions? i feel like i must be misunderstanding that, since ubuntu distributes a set of extensions by default in the desktop env, and that wouldn't make sense if the shell extensions are so dangerous.
on to the next steps, there's no crash files in that dir, but there are files called `_usr_bin_gnome-shell.1000.upload` and `_usr_bin_gnome- shell.1000.uploaded`. I'm assuming that's what ties into errors.ubuntu.com. I see a ton of errors around gnome on that site for my whoopsie-id, lots of gnome-shell and gnome-settings-daemon crashes: https://errors.ubuntu.com/user/3e155148c8cdcde9fe5cd5283283ef9837d7582a978ff3ce587c63aefe0cd3d3bc1bbe4921b8fff669e75ac4de5f3962de964e0df2f56142604e65bb3aa47f5c it doesn't let me look at those crash reports so I don't really have a clue what the root cause could be, but hopefully you have access to them and can investigate further. -- 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/1906137 Title: gnome-shell on 20.10 crashes all the time Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: this is probably a dupe of a bunch of other gnome-shell crashing bugs. just noting that since upgrading to 20.10, both my systems (which use the nvidia binary X drivers) have gnome-shell crashing multiple times a day. it restarts fine, but while it's crashing it locks up the whole system for a minute or two. no idea why the release in 20.10 is so much more unstable than 20.04, but here we are. as a starting point, how do I track down what it considers the cause of the crashes? I can't discern anything particularly useful from `journalctl` at first glance. is there a specific error message I can search for in all the noise to find where it crashed and see what happened right before that? I see a lot of these in the logs, but they seem to be non-fatal, and they also don't print out any actual stack traces to examine: Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == Nov 28 22:07:16 boxxy gnome-shell[222384]: == Stack trace for context 0x55995401f220 == ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.10 Package: gnome-shell 3.38.1-1ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.8.0-29.31-lowlatency 5.8.14 Uname: Linux 5.8.0-29-lowlatency x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: zfs zunicode zavl icp zcommon znvpair nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu50.2 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: skip CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Sat Nov 28 22:11:09 2020 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-07-15 (137 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200423) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 3.38.1-1ubuntu1 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to groovy on 2020-10-24 (36 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1906137/+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
