I've seen this in my logs too, QUITE a lot in fact sudo journalctl --no-hostname --since "30 days ago" | grep "update stage views actor" | wc -l
gives me back: 221915 But as far as I can tell it doesn't have any effect (GNOME 44.0 certainly has its problems but I was getting it in 43.x too and even before that and it's not causing hangs or crashes). Intel i915 kernel driver and modesetting with X11. The message is coming from gnome-shell, so I assume if you won't get it if you run a different DE - but are other DEs also unstable or are they fine? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-shell in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2007742 Title: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed> (regarding MetaWindowGroup, MetaWindowActorX11, MetaSurfaceActorX11) Status in GNOME Shell: New Status in Mutter: New Status in gnome-shell package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: These messages repeat: [ 105.711276] ingenika gnome-shell[2919]: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaWindowGroup>:0x55bba91da500] is on because it needs an allocation. [ 105.711772] ingenika gnome-shell[2919]: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaWindowActorX11>:0x55bbac95c330] is on because it needs an allocation. [ 105.711903] ingenika gnome-shell[2919]: Can't update stage views actor <unnamed>[<MetaSurfaceActorX11>:0x55bbae726860] is on because it needs an allocation. --- ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 22.10 Package: gnome-shell 43.1-0ubuntu1 Uname: Linux 6.1.11-060111-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia_modeset nvidia ApportVersion: 2.23.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 CasperMD5CheckResult: pass CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME Date: Fri Feb 17 21:54:39 2023 DisplayManager: gdm3 InstallationDate: Installed on 2022-08-22 (179 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS "Jammy Jellyfish" - Release amd64 (20220809.1) RelatedPackageVersions: mutter-common 43.0-1ubuntu4 SourcePackage: gnome-shell UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to kinetic on 2023-02-08 (9 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/2007742/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp