From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org>, 24445@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24445: GNOME desktop session crash when re-arranging dock
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2017 14:34:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87efql9z5l.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8760bxppr7.fsf_-_@gnu.org> ("Ludovic \=\?utf-8\?Q\?Court\=C3\=A8s\?\= \=\?utf-8\?Q\?\=22's\?\= message of "Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:51:08 +0200")
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Mohammed Sadiq <sadiq@sadiqpk.org> skribis:
>
>> This crash appears to happen on dragging anything on gnome-shell.
>>
>> Eg:
>> 1. If a window is dragged in shell overview
>> 2. if a window in desktop list (in the right side) is dragged.
>> 3. if some icon from Application list is dragged.
>>
>> Also, the immediately followed drag after the first failure results in a total
>> crash losing all the open window and goes back to slim login.
>
> A serious problem.
>
>> So the bug severity may be increased if this is reproducible to some
>> one.
The same bug has been present in GNOME on GuixSD since the beginning of
our GNOME support. I can confirm that it's 100% reproducible on my
GuixSD system, and as I recall it's been confirmed by David Thompson and
Andy Wingo at least.
> Mohammed, do you think this could be Guix-specific? Intuitively I would
> guess that this can only be an upstream bug, but you know GNOME better
> than I do. :-)
I can confirm that the problem does not occur on Debian, and I've not
found reports of it happening on any other mainstream distro. I would
guess that our unusual filesystem layout prevents GNOME Shell from
finding something that it's looking for, and that the error handling in
that case is deficient or non-existent.
In case anyone missed it, Thomas Danckaert recently made a significant
contribution to discovering the cause of this bug, and provided a
workaround:
https://bugs.gnu.org/24445#8
Given this, I suspect that it would not take long for a motivated
developer to complete the investigation and fix this bug properly.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-02 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 13:45 bug#24445: GNOME desktop session crash when re-arranging dock Ravishankar S
2017-09-27 7:48 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-09-30 5:51 ` bug#24445: [No Subject] Mohammed Sadiq
2017-10-02 14:51 ` bug#24445: GNOME desktop session crash when re-arranging dock Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-02 18:01 ` Mohammed Sadiq
2017-10-02 18:34 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2017-10-08 13:50 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-10-08 15:08 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-08 15:38 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-10-08 19:18 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-09 8:58 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-10-09 9:51 ` Ludovic Courtès
2017-10-09 10:47 ` Thomas Danckaert
2017-10-10 8:29 ` Thomas Danckaert
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