gnome shell crashes after ~1m

gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[Thomas Danckaert]

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

Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[paren--- via]

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.

Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[Thomas Danckaert]

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

Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[Luis Felipe]

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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.

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Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[Daniel Meißner]

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

-- 
Daniel

Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[Thomas Danckaert]

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

Re: gnome shell crashes after ~1m

[Reza Housseini]

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