*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1949200 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1949200
Let's assume this was bug 1949200 since I've got to the bottom of that
now.
** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 1949200
gnome-shell crashed with SIGTRAP from error "Can't create a
Thanks for the clarification on their tight coupling! I really hope the
crash i saw was some sort of corner case that rarely appears. If I do
see it again, I'll let you know.
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Turns out both statements are true: gnome-shell is designed to survive
Xwayland crashing, and gnome-shell might crash when Xwayland crashes.
In my case:
Mar 29 11:44:48 nine gnome-shell[3392]: Connection to xwayland lost
Mar 29 11:44:48 nine gnome-shell[3392]: Xwayland just died, attempting to
I really thought gnome-shell surviving Xwayland crashes was something
that was fixed (or scheduled to be fixed) upstream some time ago. But
occasionally there are hints in bug reports that it still doesn't
recover. Also I just tried it and killing Xwayland does kill gnome-shell
too :(
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Ok it wasn't clear to me if the fault was gnome-shell or xwayland.
Following the instructional link, I do see https://errors.ubuntu.com/user/ID
items, but none around this time. The workaround in bug 994921 is outdated and
the line it says to comment is no longer in the file... so I'll just see
