bug#71556: GNOME Konsol crashes

[Simon Josefsson via Bug reports for GNU Guix <bug-guix@gnu.org>]

> 21 juni 2024 kl. 06:32 skrev Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>:
> 
> Am Freitag, dem 14.06.2024 um 18:34 +0200 schrieb Simon Josefsson:
>> Hi.
>> 
>> GNOME Konsol has crashed for me, bringing down all 10+ windows I had
>> open (and plenty of ongoing work halted...).  I've now seen this
>> twice, so I suppose it counts as reproducible, even though I don't
>> know how to trigger it.  I recall that it happened when I used the
>> mouse to maybe resize windows or switch workspace somehow.
>> 
>> This is guix v1.3.0-60008-g7e00fb9f31 with a fairly normal system
>> configuration [1] on a fairly ordinary amd64 desktop (MSI Z790P).
>> Syslog has these two crashes:
> … and a fairly normal GPU?

Built-in UHD 770 in the Intel 14900K CPU (no overclocking). I am using Dasharo system firmware if that makes a difference.

I’ve used this system extensively and think some recent update may have introduced it as I started seeing it only recently. Hard to tell though since it only happened after 4+ hours of interactive work each time.

> The crash indicates some driver issue, probably in Mesa.  Since GNOME
> is increasingly hardware accelerated, you tend to notice them in a lot
> of places.  You can twiddle the GSK_RENDERER environment variable to
> something less buggy, potentially at the cost of performance.
> Particularly the cairo one ought to do slow, but correct CPU rendering.

Ah this makes sense. I will try and see if I notice it again. It hasn’t happened for any other application.

/Simon