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FS#64385 - [gnome-shell] gnome shell freezes since

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Philipp Wolfer (phw) - Monday, 04 November 2019, 14:08 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 09:56 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 5
Private No

Details

Description:
Since updating to 1:3.34.1+7+g750c5acd3-1 after a short while working gnome shell freezes / becomes unresponsive. Applications keep running, but you are unable to interact with any window, no updates to the display happen.

Restarting gnome shell with "killall -3 gnome-shell" from another terminal will make the desktop usable again, but it freezes the same shortly after.

After downgrading to 1:3.34.1+5+g072a9a484-1 the issue goes aways.

Additional info:
* gnome-shell 1:3.34.1+7+g750c5acd3-1-x86_64
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 12 November 2019, 09:56 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:  Mutter bug, see last comment
Comment by Sibo Dong (flyingpig) - Monday, 04 November 2019, 18:47 GMT
Running the same version of gnome-shell as well as mutter 3.34.1+31+g51f7e8c4d-1 in an X.Org session. I can freeze gnome-shell by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Tab. Downgrading mutter to 3.34.1+31+g51f7e8c4d-1 fixed the issue for me.
Comment by Mike Dillamore (armadillo) - Tuesday, 05 November 2019, 13:28 GMT
I also found that downgrading mutter - to 3.34.1+26+gc0037305e-1 - resolves the issue. Running on Dell XPS 15 9560 using Xorg with Intel graphics (Nvidia adapter disabled).
Comment by Philipp Wolfer (phw) - Tuesday, 05 November 2019, 14:01 GMT
I can actually confirm the thing with mutter. Just downgrading gnome-shell seemed to help (issue arose not so quickly), but it still happened. Only downgrading mutter as well made the issue go away completely. So probably the actual issue is in mutter, and gnome-shell only triggers it.
Comment by Sibo Dong (flyingpig) - Tuesday, 05 November 2019, 17:21 GMT
Here is the link to the downstream bug report for mutter: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64389.
Comment by Philipp Wolfer (phw) - Thursday, 07 November 2019, 10:58 GMT
Upgrading mutter as described in https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64389 resolves this issue. This really is a mutter bug, I suggest to close this gnome-shell issue then.

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