Dear mailing list, after 5 months without updating my system (I know!), I just ran guix pull and reconfigured my system with the latest gnome desktop. Unfortunately, when I start this latest system generation, gnome shell crashes after about 1 minute (I get the “oops, something went wrong” grey screen of death). Looking in the logs (/var/log/messages and ~/.cache/gdm/session.log), I find the messages involving org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.UsbProtection.desktop that coincide with the moment of the crash. Here are the messages from session.log: ** (gsd-usb-protection:1051): WARNING **: 11:15:06.587: Failed to connect to the screen saver: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.ScreenSaver: Timeout was reached gnome-session-binary[842]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.UsbProtection.desktop' killed by signal 11 ** (gsd-power:1063): WARNING **: 11:15:06.855: Failed to connect to the screen saver: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.ScreenSaver: Timeout was reached (gsd-power:1063): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: 11:15:06.855: invalid (NULL) pointer instance (gsd-power:1063): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 11:15:06.855: g_signal_connect_data: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed ** (gsd-usb-protection:1443): WARNING **: 11:15:31.652: Failed to connect to the screen saver: Error calling StartServiceByName for org.gnome.ScreenSaver: Timeout was reached gnome-session-binary[842]: WARNING: Application 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.UsbProtection.desktop' killed by signal 11 gnome-session-binary[842]: WARNING: App 'org.gnome.SettingsDaemon.UsbProtection.desktop' respawning too quickly Any suggestions for solutions or workarounds? Has anybody else experienced this behaviour? Due to the long time between updates (previous generation was from February), it might not be obvious to track the change that causes this error (likely a new gnome desktop version I suppose...). sincerely, Thomas
You have any GNOME extensions installed? I think they can cause such crashes. Try switching to a TTY, uninstalling them all, and logging in again.
From: "(" <paren@disroot.org>
Subject: Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 12:29:12 +0200
> You have any GNOME extensions installed? I think they can cause
> such crashes.
> Try switching to a TTY, uninstalling them all, and logging in again.
No I don't (not that I'm aware of at least). There is no
'extensions' directory in ~/.local/share/gnome-shell. And if look
at Settings > Extensions, there's nothing there either.
Thomas
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Hi all,
Luis Felipe <luis.felipe.la@protonmail.com> writes:
> Hi Thomas,
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 13th, 2022 at 09:28, Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be> wrote:
>
>
>> Dear mailing list,
>>
>
>> after 5 months without updating my system (I know!), I just ran guix
>> pull and reconfigured my system with the latest gnome desktop.
>> Unfortunately, when I start this latest system generation, gnome
>> shell crashes after about 1 minute (I get the “oops, something went
>> wrong” grey screen of death).
>
> This has happened to me several times when I upgrade the system but
> not my user profile. Upgrading my profile and rebooting has solved the
> problem for me in the past.
Thank you!! I had the same issue and it fixed it for me :-)
Best
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Daniel
Hi Luis, thanks, upgrading my user profile solved it for me, too. (Actually I thought I'd already done that, but apparently I must have lost my patience during a large texlive download, and aborted the first upgrade) Sincerely, Thomas
On Thursday, July 14, 2022, Thomas Danckaert <post@thomasdanckaert.be>
wrote:
> Hi Luis,
>
> thanks, upgrading my user profile solved it for me, too. (Actually I
> thought I'd already done that, but apparently I must have lost my patience
> during a large texlive download, and aborted the first upgrade)
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Thomas
>
>
I have exactly the same problem after my laptop ran out of battery. I did
not perform any system upgrades. Also after doing guix system reconfigure
and guix home reconfigure still the same problem, any ideas how to proceed?
Cheers,
Reza